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There was no environmental concern at the time or resources to exploit, but a logic of necessity, says historian Mathieu Arnoux in his latest book.
By François-Guillaume Lorrain
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MeTen years ago, Mathieu Arnoux, who founded and directs the interdisciplinary energy laboratory of the future (University of Paris Diderot), published a study of the work of peasants in the Middle Ages. This time he was interested in the materials of that time, which were not yet considered resources. What choice, within a framework also constrained by climate, were made by these peasants, but also by religious and royal powers? What is their mental horizon? Questions that historians want to study as close to their sources as possible in the mirror of current concerns.
Points : What use of the world did the peasants of the Paris Valley circa 1300?
Matthew Arnoux: Charters (which tell us about property), texts of jurists and theologians, on literature…
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