Part I. Air, Water, Earth
In the Beginning ...
Worshipping the Elements
The Medieval Warm Period
Harnessing the Elements
Collaboration, or Exploitation?
The Little Ice Age
Earth, Wind, and Death
Environmental Causes of the Plague
Man-Made Pollution of the Environment
The Poison Thesis
Weather Magic
Part II. Forest
Pre-Christian Tree Cults
Surviving Wildwood at the Start of the Middle Ages
The Early Medieval Woodland
An Era of Great Clearances?
A Brief History of the Royal Forest of England
The Evidence of the Eyre Rolls
Managing the King's Woods
Disafforestment and the Rise of Private Woodland
The Management of Woods Elsewhere
Shaping the Idea of Wilderness
A Renaissance in Regrowth of the Forest?
Part III. Beast
Animals on the Farm : The Early Middle Ages
Animals on the Farm : The High and Late Middle Ages
Animals as Pets and Companions
Animals of the Hunt : Origins of Medieval Hunting
Animals of the Hunt : Deer and Other Game
Animals of the Hunt : Romance vs. Reality
Animals of the Hunt : Falconry and Fishing
Animals and Disease
Animals on Trial
Animals in the Bed
Animals and Magic
Afterword.