Discusses the social and economic development of Italy

A discussion of the relationship between people and water in medieval Italy, first published in 1998.

An innovative environmental history of the chestnut tree and what it can tell us about the medieval history of Italy.

After the fall of the last Western Roman Emperor in 476 AD, Northern Italy played a crucial role - both geographically and culturally - in connecting East to We

Demonstrates how food-growing gardens in early medieval cities transformed Roman ideas and economic structures into new, medieval values.