This innovative environmental history of the long-lived European chestnut tree and its woods offers valuable perspectives on the human transition from the Roman

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

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

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

Only in recent years has archaeology begun to examine in a coherent manner the transformation of the landscape from classical through to medieval times. In Land