The garden of St. Francis: Plants, landscape, and economy in thirteenth-century Italy

From: Environmental History | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

POPULARLY ASSOCIATED with the environmental movement, St. Francis (ca. 1182-1226) has long been figured as having an intense devotion to nature and an unwillingness to participate in what his admirers have seen as the tendency of Judeo-Christian culture to promote ideologies resulting in the degradation of the natural world. Especially recognized as showing kindness to animals, St. Francis often is invoked as a figure providing an alternative model of human interaction with other living species, one based not on dominance and mastery of them, but on equality and love. Such conceptions of ...

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