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Nature, Gardens & Animals
The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times
Alfred Biese
428 pages~8 hr 31 min read50 chapters$4.99
When did people first look at a mountain and call it beautiful? Alfred Biese traces the growing love of nature through the Middle Ages and into modern times, from wary suspicion to open delight. A thoughtful history of how the human heart learned to cherish the outdoors. Discover how the world came to see nature as a joy.
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50 chapters
- 1The Development
- 2Feeling for Nature
- 3In the Middle Ages and Modern Times
- 4ALFRED BIESE
- 5Table of Contents
- 6AUTHOR'S PREFACE
- 7INTRODUCTION
- 8CHAPTER I
- 9CHRISTIANITY AND GERMANISM
- 10CHAPTER II
- 11THE THEOLOGICAL CHRISTIAN AND THE SYMPATHETIC HEATHEN FEELING OF THE FIRST TEN CENTURIES A.D.
- 12CHAPTER III
- 13THE NAIVE FEELING AT THE TIME OF THE CRUSADES
- 14CHAPTER IV
- 15INDIVIDUALISM AND SENTIMENTAL FEELING AT THE RENAISSANCE
- 16CHAPTER V
- 17ENTHUSIASM FOR NATURE AMONG THE DISCOVERERS AND CATHOLIC MYSTICS
- 18CHAPTER VI
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