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Richard Hoffmanns An Environmental History of Medieval Europe is a scholarly textbook that examines medieval Europe through environmental history and social ecology. Rather than treating forests, fields, animals, disease, climate, and rivers as background conditions, the book asks how natural systems shaped human choices and how medieval people altered the ecosystems around them. Published in the Cambridge Medieval Textbooks series, it is designed for students and historians who want to connect social, economic, technological, religious, and ecological questions. Hoffmann covers broad themes such as the end of Roman environmental systems, Christian ideas about creation, agricultural expansion, local resource management, urban pressures, epidemic disease, and climate variability. Its purpose is not simply to add nature to medieval history, but to show that human communities and environmental processes formed a single interacting system. The book is especially notable for challenging assumptions that preindustrial Europe was environmentally untouched or naturally balanced.