Oecologies Sponsored Panel: Re/Imagining the Medieval and Early Modern Commons
Panel proposed at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference: “Reclaiming the Commons”
July 9-12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon
In Sir Thomas Moore’s Utopia, his narrating character, Raphael Hythloday, uses the Utopian society to critique the expanding use of enclosures occurring in England during the beginning of the 16th century. Hythloday tells the Cardinal that “Your sheep…that commonly are so meek and eat so little; now, as I hear, they have become so greedy and fierce that they devour human beings themselves” (63). Hythloday’s commentary on ...