"In this expansive history Ellen F. Arnold uses saints' lives and miracle stories, poetry, charters, chronicles, and historical narratives to examine how rivers were imagined and ascribed meaning c. 300 -1100 CE. Focusing on storytelling across centuries, she explores how environmental experiences were incorporated into pre-modern cultural spaces"--

Ellen F. Arnold is Associate Professor of Pre-modern Environmental History at the University of Stavanger, Norway. She is the author of Negotiating the Landscape and co-editor of the journal Water History.

Preface; Introduction: Medieval Waters; 200-450: Late Antique Gaul; 1. Poetries of Place; 450-750: The Merovingians; 2. Rivers of Risk; 3. River Resources; 750-950: The Carolingians; 4. Rivers and Memory; 950-1050: The Year 1000 Question; 5. Ruptured Rivers; 6. Meanderings; 1050-1250: A New World?; 7. The Same River Twice.