Trees as Symbol and Metaphor in the Middle Ages
Bintley, Dr. Michael (Royalty Account) / Salonius, Pippa (Author)
Forests, with their interlacing networks of trees and secret patterns of communication, are powerful entities for thinking-with. A majestic terrestrial community of arboreal others, their presence echoes, entangles, and resonates deeply with the human world. The essays collected here aim to highlight human encounters with the forest and its trees at the time of the European Middle Ages, when, whether symbol and metaphor, or actual, their lofty...