Thunder and Hail over the Carolingian Countryside
Paul Edward Dutton
What farmers thought, how they imagined their world to work, and what strategies consciously adopted confront a capricious natural are matters that rarely surface in the records of Middle Ages. No writer ninth century spent much time pondering thoughts those who worked managed land, probably because it was assumed were unremarkable. Yet could be more central fuller appreciation an age like Carolingian, which countryside agricultural concerns dominated, than acknowledge importance and, indeed, intelligibility popular thought?
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