Tag: Nature

• Plague and Ideology: Recovering the Medieval View of Nature in St. Francis and St. Bonaventure

  August 31, 2025

  Animal Studies, Philosophy, Theology

  Animals, Christianity, faith, Franciscan, Ideology, Medieval, Nature, Plague, Spirituality

  Historical scholarship is clear there was an increase in technological production—particularly in agriculture—in the Middle Ages, but scholars such as Harrison and Aberth have challenged—and have, I would argue, successfully undercut—the formerly pervasive opinion that such an increase heralded an “estrangement” between humans and nature to the end of man becoming an exploiter of nature.…