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The keys to bread and wine : faith, nature, and infrastructure in late medieval Valencia
- Author / Creator
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- Online
- Summary
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"This book shows how the city council of Valencia, Spain, in the later Middle Ages governed the environment around the city amid frequent natural disasters"--Provided by publisher.
Details
- Creator
- Abigail Agresta
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022
- ©2022
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource : illustrations, maps
- data file
- ISBNs
- 1501764195, 9781501764189, 9781501764172, 1501764187, 1501764179, 9781501764196
- OCLC
- on1295611745
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction : The Keys to Bread and Wine -- The Works and Arts of Men -- Water Dedicated to Some Purpose -- The Honor of the City -- Natural Disaster and the Rise of Rogation Processions -- Seeking the Dew of His Grace : Droughts -- Corrupt Air and Contagious Bodies : Plague -- That for Which the King of Kings Sent the Flood? Floods and Locusts
Subjects
- Human ecology -- Spain -- Valencia -- History -- To 1500.
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Spain -- Valencia -- History -- To 1500.
- Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- Spain -- Valencia -- History -- To 1500.
- Natural disasters -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
- Natural disasters -- Spain -- Valencia -- History -- To 1500.
- Environmental policy -- Spain -- Valencia -- History -- To 1500.
- Valencia (Spain) -- Environmental conditions.
- Valencia (Spain) -- History -- To 1500.
- Valencia (Spain) -- Religious life and customs.