Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9789048537211-009
Sara Miglietti
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Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9789048537211-014
Antónia Szabari
{"title":"11. Montaigne’s Plants in Movement","authors":"Antónia Szabari","doi":"10.1515/9789048537211-014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048537211-014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":180042,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern Écologies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130962246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9789048537211-010
Phillip John Usher
{"title":"7. Almost Encountering Ronsard’s Rose","authors":"Phillip John Usher","doi":"10.1515/9789048537211-010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048537211-010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":180042,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern Écologies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128709842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9789048537211-005
Stephanie Shiflett
{"title":"2. Du Bartas Responding to Morton’s Milton : A Bodily Route to the Ecological Thought","authors":"Stephanie Shiflett","doi":"10.1515/9789048537211-005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048537211-005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":180042,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern Écologies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131383854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
‘Climate theories’ are often explained away in scholarship as pseudosciences irrelevant to the modern world, or as morally problematic forms of geographic determinism. This chapter instead argues that such theories still offer a valuable lens not only for understanding how early modern people conceptualized the relationship between human culture and nonhuman nature, but also for resituating ourselves with respect to this very same issue. Are we humans above and outside nature, or are we an integral part of it, caught in its dynamics and affected by its internal changes—including those resulting from our own agency? Three sixteenth-century authors (Le Roy, Bodin, La Framboisière) are here brought into dialogue with contemporary thinkers (Descola, Latour) to reappraise the ‘integrated ecology’ of nature and culture proposed by early modern climate theorists.
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{"title":"Index","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv10kmcfq.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv10kmcfq.17","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":180042,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern Écologies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127982608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-03-24DOI: 10.1515/9789048537211-012
Oumelbanine Zhiri
The admirers of Jean Bodin’s political philosophy might be surprised by his Demonomanie des sorciers and his forceful attempt to prove the reality of witchcraft. This opposition between the enlightened modern and the superstitious premodern makes his thought a prime example to confront to the theory of modernity proposed by Bruno Latour. This essay attempts such an exploration, and focuses on narratives of treasure seeking in Bodin’s text, to understand the notion of nature that they bespeak, a nature entirely worked through by demons. Looking at Bodin as a premodern also allows us to complicate Latour’s account by highlighting what the resurgence of thinking about witchcraft in late sixteenth-century Europe reveals about a larger argument about Nature, and the ways in which humans should deal with it.
{"title":"9. An Inconvenient Bodin: Latour and the Treasure Seekers","authors":"Oumelbanine Zhiri","doi":"10.1515/9789048537211-012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048537211-012","url":null,"abstract":"The admirers of Jean Bodin’s political philosophy might be surprised by\u0000 his Demonomanie des sorciers and his forceful attempt to prove the reality\u0000 of witchcraft. This opposition between the enlightened modern and the\u0000 superstitious premodern makes his thought a prime example to confront\u0000 to the theory of modernity proposed by Bruno Latour. This essay attempts\u0000 such an exploration, and focuses on narratives of treasure seeking in\u0000 Bodin’s text, to understand the notion of nature that they bespeak, a nature\u0000 entirely worked through by demons. Looking at Bodin as a premodern\u0000 also allows us to complicate Latour’s account by highlighting what the\u0000 resurgence of thinking about witchcraft in late sixteenth-century Europe\u0000 reveals about a larger argument about Nature, and the ways in which\u0000 humans should deal with it.","PeriodicalId":180042,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern Écologies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133580477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Back Matter","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv10kmcfq.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv10kmcfq.18","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":180042,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern Écologies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125066215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-03-24DOI: 10.5117/9789462985971_ch08
V. Velázquez
Joachim du Bellay’s Les Antiquitez de Rome (1558) is traditionally read as a text about human-made culture: the grandeur and ruin of Rome. Nevertheless, through a moral condemnation of imperial Rome’s pride and its violent origins, Du Bellay describes the effects Rome’s fall had on the nonhuman landscape, thus inviting a re-evaluation of the relation between humans and nonhuman nature. His juxtaposition of the destructiveness of history’s blindness to nature with the landscape’s re-emergence from the ruined remains of Roman culture yields images that challenge us to rethink conservation in relation to a nature that changes over time, and which is inseparable from culture and its ruins, while at the same time redefining the traditional presupposition of what we categorize as ‘nature writing’.
{"title":"Renascent Nature in the Ruins: Joachim du Bellay’s Antiquitez de Rome","authors":"V. Velázquez","doi":"10.5117/9789462985971_ch08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789462985971_ch08","url":null,"abstract":"Joachim du Bellay’s Les Antiquitez de Rome (1558) is traditionally read\u0000 as a text about human-made culture: the grandeur and ruin of Rome.\u0000 Nevertheless, through a moral condemnation of imperial Rome’s pride and\u0000 its violent origins, Du Bellay describes the effects Rome’s fall had on the\u0000 nonhuman landscape, thus inviting a re-evaluation of the relation between\u0000 humans and nonhuman nature. His juxtaposition of the destructiveness of\u0000 history’s blindness to nature with the landscape’s re-emergence from the\u0000 ruined remains of Roman culture yields images that challenge us to rethink\u0000 conservation in relation to a nature that changes over time, and which is\u0000 inseparable from culture and its ruins, while at the same time redefining\u0000 the traditional presupposition of what we categorize as ‘nature writing’.","PeriodicalId":180042,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern Écologies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115510763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}