Oecologies keeps a working bibliography of recent scholarly works focused on environmental theory, ecology, and ecocriticism in Medieval and early modern historical periods. Due to space, we have limited the bibliography to books, edited collections, and special issues of scholarly journals from 2012 and after.
Medieval
Aberth, John. An Environmental History of the Middle Ages: The Crucible of Nature. London: Routledge. 2013. ISBN: 9780415779463
Abram, Chris. Evergreen Ash: Ecology and Catastrophe in Old Norse Myth and Legend. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 2019. ISBN: 9780813942261
Arnold, Ellen F. Negotiating the Landscape: Environment and Monastic Identity in the Medieval Ardennes. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania. 2012. ISBN: 9780812244632
Benedictow, Ole J. The Complete History of the Black Death. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer. 2021. ISBN: 9781783275168
Boulton, Meg, Jane Hawkes, and Heidi Stoner, ed. 2018. Place and Space in the Medieval World. New York: Routledge. ISBN: 9781138220201
Burns, E. Jane and Peggy McCracken, ed. 2013. From Beasts to Souls: Gender and Embodiment in Medieval Europe. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press. ISBN: 9780268022327
Cady, Diane. The Gender of Money in Middle English Literature: Value and Economy in Late Medieval England. Palgrave Macmillan. 2019. ISBN: 9783030262600
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome and Linda T. Elkins-Tanton. 2017. Earth (Object Lessons). London: Bloomsbury Academic. 2017. ISBN: 9781501317934
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome. Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman. Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press. 2015. ISBN: 9780816692620
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, ed. Inhuman Nature. Washington: Oliphaunt Books (Punctum). 2014. ISBN: 9780692299302
Coley, David K. Death and the Pearl Maiden: Plague, Poetry, England. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. 2019. ISBN: 9780814213902
Crane, Susan. Animal Encounters: Contacts and Concepts in Medieval Britain. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2012. ISBN: 9780812244588
Epstein, Steven A. The Medieval Discovery of Nature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2012. ISBN: 9781107026452
Estes, Heide. Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes: Ecotheory and the Environmental Imagination. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 2018. ISBN: 9789089649447
Fabry-Tehranchi, Irène and Anna Russakoff. L’Humain et l’Animal dans la France médiévale (XIIe-XVe s.) / Human and Animal in Medieval France (12th-15th c.). Amsterdam: Rodopi. 2014. ISBN: 9789042038653
Goldwyn, Adam J. 2018. Byzantine Ecocriticism: Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2018. ISBN 9783319692036
Gordon, Stephen. Supernatural Encounters: Demons and the Restless Dead in Medieval England, c. 1050-1450. London & New York: Routledge. 2020. ISBN: 9781138361744
Harlan-Haughey, Sarah. The Ecology of the English Outlaw in Medieval Literature. London & New York: Routledge. 2016. ISBN: 9781472465504
Hawkes, D. and R.G. Newhauser, ed. 2013. The Book of Nature and Humanity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Turnhout: Brepols. 2013. ISBN: 9782503549217
Jurkowlaniec, Grażyna, Ika Matyjaszkiewicz, and Zuzanna Sarnecka, ed. 2018. The Agency of Things in Medieval and Early Modern Art: Materials, Power, and Manipulation. New York & London: Routledge. ISBN: 9781138054226
Kay, Sarah. 2017. Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2017. ISBN: 9780226436739
Kiss, Andrea and Kathleen Pribyl, eds. The Dance of Death in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe: Environmental Stress, Mortality and Social Response. New York & London: Routledge. 2019. ISBN: 9781138590366
Langdon, Alison, ed. 2018. Animal Languages in the Middle Ages: Representations of Interspecies Communication. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2018. ISBN 9783319718972
Langeslag, Paul S. Seasons in the Literatures of the Medieval North. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer. 2015. ISBN: 9781843845256
McCracken, Peggy. In the Skin of a Beast: Sovereignty and Animality in Medieval France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2017. ISBN: 9780226458922
Mitchell, J. Allan. Becoming Human: The Matter of the Medieval Child. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2014. ISBN: 9780816689972
Ostling, Michael. Fairies, Demons, and Nature Spirits: ‘Small Gods’ at the Margins of Christendom. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2018. ISBN: 9781137585202
Pluskowski, A., ed. 2019. Ecologies of Crusading, Colonization, and Religious Conversion in the Medieval Baltic. Turnhout: Brepols. 2019. ISBN: 9782503551333
Schiff, Randy P. and Joseph Taylor. The Politics of Ecology: Land, Life, and Law in Medieval Britain. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press. 2016. ISBN: 9780814212950
Smith, James L. Water in Medieval Intellectual Culture: Case Studies from Twelfth-Century Monasticism. Turnhout: Brepols. 2018. ISBN: 9782503572338
Van Dyke, Carolynn, ed. Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2012. ISBN: 9780230338586
Warren, Michael J. Birds in Medieval English Poetry: Metaphors, Realities, Transformations. Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer. 2018. ISBN: 9781843845089
Williamson, Tom. Environment, Society and Landscape in Early Medieval England: Time and Topography. Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer. 2013. ISBN: 9781783270552
Wright, Sarah Breckenridge. Mobility and Identity in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer. 2020. ISBN: 9781843845522
Early Modern
Allewaert, Monique. Ariel’s Ecology: Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics. University of Minnesota Press. 2013. ISBN: 9780816677283
Bailey, Amanda and Mario DiGangi, eds. Affect Theory and Early Modern Texts: Politics, Ecologies, Form. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. 2017. ISBN: 9781137570741
Barrett, Chris. Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Cartographic Anxiety. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2018. ISBN: 9780198816874
Barton, Anne. The Shakespearean Forest. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2017. ISBN: 9781139015257
Bellamy, Elizabeth J. Dire Straits: The Perils of Writing the Early Modern English Coastline from Leland to Milton. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2013. ISBN: 9781442645011
Betram, Benjamin. Bestial Oblivion: War, Humanism, and Ecology in Early Modern England. Abingdon: Routledge. 2018. ISBN: 9781138708853
Boehrer, Bruce. Environmental Degradation in Jacobean Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2013. ISBN: 9781107023154
Borlik, Todd Andrew. Ecocriticism and Early Modern English Literature: Green Pastures. New York & London: Routledge. 2011. ISBN: 9780415878616
Borlik, Todd Andrew. Literature and Nature in the English Renaissance: An Ecocritical Anthology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2019. ISBN: 9781108224901
Borlik, Todd Andrew. Shakespeare Beyond the Green World: Drama and Ecopolitics in Jacobean Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2023. ISBN: 9780192866639
Botelho, Keith and Jospeh Campana, eds. Lesser Living Creatures of the Renaissance, vol. 1: Insects. University Park: Penn State University Press. 2023. ISBN: 9780271094465
Botelho, Keith and Jospeh Campana, eds. Lesser Living Creatures of the Renaissance, vol. 2: Concepts. University Park: Penn State University Press. 2023. ISBN: 9780271094489
Brayton, Dan. Shakespeare’s Ocean: An Ecocritical Exploration. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 2012. ISBN:
Calhoun, Joshua. The Nature of the Page: Poetry, Papermaking, and the Ecology of Texts in Renaissance England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2020. ISBN: 9780812251890
Campana, Joseph and Scott Maisano, eds. Renaissance Posthumanism. New York: Fordham University Press. 2016. ISBN:
Chiari, Sophie. Shakespeare’s Representation of Weather, Climate and Environment: The Early Modern “Fated Sky.” Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2019. ISBN: 9781474442527
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, ed. Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects. Washington: Oliphaunt Books (Punctum). 2012. ISBN: 9780615625355
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome and Julian Yates, eds. Object Oriented Environs. Punctum Books. 2016. ISBN: 9780692642030
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, and Lowell Duckert eds. Elemental Ecocriticism: Thinking with Earth, Air, Water, and Fire. Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press. 2015. ISBN: 9780816693092
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, and Lowell Duckert eds. Veer Ecology. Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press. 2017. ISBN 9781517900779
Crane, Mary Thomas. Losing Touch with Nature: Literature and the New Science in Sixteenth-Century England. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2014. ISBN: 9781421415314
Cranston, Jodi. Green Worlds of Renaissance Venice. State College: Penn State University Press. 2019. ISBN: 9780271082028
Cuneo, Pia F. Animals and Early Modern Identity. Abingdon: Routledge. 2018. ISBN: 9781138310339
Degroot, Dagomar. The Frigid Golden Age: Climate Change, the Little Ice Age, and the Dutch Republic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2014. ISBN: 9781108297639
Dionne, Craig. Posthuman Lear: Reading Shakespeare in the Anthropocene. Punctum Books. 2016. ISBN: 9780692641576
Duckert, Lowell. For All Waters: Finding Ourselves in Early Modern Wetscapes. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2017. ISBN: 9781517900472
Dolan, Frances E. Digging the Past: How and Why to Imagine Seventeenth-Century Agriculture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2020. ISBN: 9780812252330
Egan, Gabriel. Shakespeare and Ecocritical Theory. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing. 2015. ISBN: 9781441199300
Eklund, Hillary. Literature and Moral Economy in the Early Modern Atlantic: Elegant Sufficiencies. Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 2015. ISBN: 9781409462347
Findlen, Paula. Early Modern Things: Objects and their Histories, 1500-1800. New York: Routledge. 2012. ISBN: 9780415520515
Floyd-Wilson, Mary. Occult Knowledge, Science, and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2013. ISBN: 9781107036321
Goul, Pauline and John Usher, eds. Early Modern Écologies: Beyond English Ecocriticism. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 2020. ISBN: 9789462985971
Hallock, Thomas, Ivo Kamps and Karen L. Raber, eds. Early Modern Ecostudies: From the Florentine Codex to Shakespeare. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2020. ISBN: 9780230617940
Jones, Gwilym. Shakespeare’s Storms. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2015. ISBN: 9780719089381
Knight, Leah. Reading Green in Early Modern England. Surrey: Ashgate. 2014. ISBN: 9781409446644
Mackenzie, Louisa and Stephanie Posthumus, eds. 2015. French Thinking about Animals. Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan State University Press. 2015. ISBN: 9781611861525
McLean Test, Edward. Sacred Seeds: New World Plants in Early Modern English Literature. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. 2019. ISBN: 9781496207883
Marroquín, Jaime Arredondo and Ralph Bauer, eds. Translating Nature: Cross-Cultural Histories of Early Modern Science. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2019. ISBN: 9780812250930
Martin, Randall. Shakespeare and Ecology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2015. ISBN: 9780199567010
McGrath, Patrick J. Early Modern Asceticism: Literature, Religion, and Austerity in the English Renaissance. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2019. ISBN: 9781487505325
Mentz, Steve, ed. A Cultural History of the Sea in the Early Modern Age. New York: Bloomsbury. 2021. ISBN: 9781474299039
Mentz, Steve. Shipwreck Modernity: Ecologies of Globalization, 1550-1719. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota. 2015. ISBN: 9780816691067
Miglietti, Sara and John Morgan, eds. Governing the Environment in the Early Modern World Theory and Practice. Abingdon: Routledge. 2017. ISBN: 9781138674776
Munroe, Jennifer, Edward J. Geisweidt and Lynne Bruckner, eds. Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts: A Field Guide to Reading and Teaching. Burlington: Ashgate. 2015. ISBN: 9781472416759
Munroe, Jennifer and Rebecca Laroche, eds. Ecofeminist Approaches to Early Modernity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2010. ISBN: 9781137001900
Nardizzi, Vin. Marvelous Vegetables in the English Renaissance. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2025. ISBN: 9781487500702
Nardizzi, Vin. Wooden O’s: Shakespeare’s Theatres and England’s Trees. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2013. ISBN: 9781442646001
Nardizzi, Vin and Tiffany Jo Werth, eds. Premodern Ecologies in the Modern Literary Imagination. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2019. ISBN: 9781487504144
Pettman, Dominic. Creaturely Love How Desire Makes Us More and Less Than Human. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2017. ISBN: 9781517901219
Raber, Karen. Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2013. ISBN: 9780812245363
Raber, Karen and Monica Mattfeld. Performing Animals: History, Agency, Theater. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2017. ISBN: 9780271078342
Ramachandran, Ayesha. The Worldmakers: Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe. Chicago: Chicago University Press. 2015. ISBN: 9780226598871
Reinburg, Virginia. Storied Places: Pilgrim Shrines, Nature, and History in Early Modern France. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2019. ISBN: 9781108672795
Remien, Peter and Scott Slovic, eds. Nature and Literary Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022. ISBN: 9781108872263
Remien, Peter. The Concept of Nature in Early Modern English Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2019. ISBN: 9781108496810
Sarkar, Debapriya. Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2023. ISBN: 9781512823356
Shannon, Laurie. The Accommodated Animal: Cosmopolity in Shakespearean Locales. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2013. ISBN: 9780226924175
Snowden, Frank M. Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2019. ISBN: 9780300192216
Sterckx, Roel, ed. Animals through Chinese History: Earliest Times to 1911. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2019. ISBN: 9781108551571
Tigner, Amy. Literature and the Renaissance Garden from Elizabeth I to Charles II: England’s Paradise. Burlington: Ashgate. 2012. ISBN: 9781409436744
Totaro, Rebecca. Meteorology and Physiology in Early Modern Culture: Earthquakes, Human Identity, and Textual Representation. Abingdon: Routledge. 2018. ISBN: 9781138092167
Usher, Phillip John. Exterranean: Extraction in the Humanist Anthropocene. New York: Fordham University Press. 2019. ISBN: 9780823284214
Werth, Tiffany Jo. The Lithic Imagination from More to Milton. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2024. ISBN: 9780198903963
Journals and Special Issues
ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities
Tiffany Jo Werth, special guest ed. The Spenser Review 50.3 (Spenser and Ecocriticism). 2020
Vin Nardizzi and Robert W. Barrett, Jr., special issue ed. Postmedieval 9 (Premodern Plants). 2018
Daniela Boccassini, special issue ed. Quaderni di Studi Indo-Mediterranei X (Oikosophia: Dall’intelligenza del cuore all’ecofilosofia / From the Intelligence of the Heart to Ecophilosophy). 2017
Karl Steel and Holly Dugan, special issue ed. Early Modern Culture 11 (Fabulous Animals). 2016
Tiffany Jo Werth, special guest ed. The Shakespearean International Yearbook 15 (Shakespeare and the Human). 2015
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lowell Duckert, special issue ed. Postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies 4 no. 1 (Ecomaterialism). 2013
Oecologies 