Books

Medieval Riverscapes: Environmental Meaning and Memory in Northwest Europe, ca. 300-1100. Forthcoming: Cambridge University Press.

Negotiating the Landscape: Monastic Identity and Environmental Imagination in the Medieval Ardennes. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15026.html


Peer-reviewed articles and chapters

“Saints by the Shore: Coastal Encounters in the Early Medieval West.” In 'With Our Backs to the Ocean': Land, Lordship and Environmental Change in the North-West European Past. Essays in Memory of Alasdair Ross, ed. Richard Oram. Brepols, 2023.

“Hagiography and Environmental History,” in Hagiography and the History of Latin Christendom, 500-1500, ed. Samantha Herrick, Brill: Leiden, 2019, pp. 351-372.

“The Environmental History of the Late Antique West: a Bibliographic Essay.” in Environment and Society in the Long Late Antiquity, ed. Adam Izdebski and Michael Mulryan. Brill, 2019, 31-52. Co-authored by Merle Eisenberg, David J. Patterson, Jamie Kreiner, Ellen F. Arnold, and Timothy P. Newfield.

“Rivers of Risk and Redemption in Gregory of Tours’ Writings,” Speculum 92:1, January 2017, pp. 117-143. 

“Fluid Identities: Poetry and the Navigation of Mixed Ethnicities in Late Antique Gaul,” Ecozon@, the European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 5.2 (2014): 88-106.

“An Introduction to Medieval Environmental History,” History Compass, 6/3 (2008): 898–916.

“Engineering Miracles: Water Control, Conversion, and the Creation of a Religious Landscape in the Medieval Ardennes,” Environment and History, 13.4 (November 2007): 477-502.  Also anthologized in Sarah Johnson, ed. Landscapes (Themes in Environmental History) White Horse Press, Cambridge: UK, 2010.


Book reviews

Meanings of Water in Early Medieval England, eds. Carolyn Twomey and David Anzelark, for The Medieval Review.

The Complete History of the Black Death by Ole J. Benedictow, for H-Env, Feb 2022 https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=56998

Inhuman Nature, ed. by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen for The Medieval Review 15.08.18 http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/19603

Water in the City: The Aqueducts and Underground Passages of Exeter by Mark Stoyle in The Historian 78 no. 4 (Winter 2016): 827-828.

Environment, Society and Landscape in Early Medieval England: Time and Topography, by Tom Williamson in The Historian, Volume 76 Number 3.

 Ecologies and Economies in Medieval and Early Modern History: Studies in Environmental History for Richard C. Hoffmann, ed. By Scott G. Bruce, for Reviews and Critical Commentary; http://councilforeuropeanstudies.org/critcom/ecologies-and-economies-in-medieval-and-early-modern-europe/

Author’s Response to Michael Wolfe, review of Negotiating the Landscape for Reviews in History (Dec 2013); http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1522  

An Environmental History of the Middle Ages: The Crucible of Nature, by John Aberth, in Environmental History 2013; doi: 10.1093/envhis/emt072 (Advance Access, issue not assigned)

Plastic Planet, a film by Werner Boote, for the Rachel Carson Center Blog, Seeing the Woods, published online June 2013 http://seeingthewoods.org/2013/06/17/film-review-plastic-planet/

A Forest on the Sea: Environmental Expertise in Renaissance Venice, by Karl Richard Appuhn, for H-Environment, H-Net Reviews. January, 2011. https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=31223

Manuscripts and Monastic Culture: Reform and Renewal in Twelfth-Century Germany, ed. by Alison I. Beach, in Church History (2008), 77: 445-47.