Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Richard C. Hoffmann -- Approaches to environmental history: a field guide to its concepts / Verena Winiwarter -- People and animals: the archaezoologist's perspective / Laśzló Bartosiewicz -- Archaeology and landscape studies in Europe: approaches and concepts / Martin Gojda -- Nature images - image nature: visual representations and their function in the Late Middle Ages / Gerhard Jaritz -- The economy, technical change, and the environment: theories and applications / Richard W. Unger -- Space and place, object and text: human-nature interaction and topographical studies / Joźsef Laszlowszky -- Urban landscapes and animals / Laśzló Bartosiewicz -- Adaptation of different bird species to human environments / Erika Gaĺ -- Backward reflections on ancient environments: what can we learn from bone tools? / Alice Choyke -- Landscape development and soil formation in the Danube-Tisza interfluve / Marianna Baĺint -- Dendrochronology and environmental history / Andraś Grynaeus -- Historical climatology and its progress after 1990 / Rudolf Braźdil -- The climate history of Central Europe in the modern age / Lajos Raćz -- Reconstructing the climate of the Byzantine world: state of the question and case studies / Dionysios Stathakopoulos -- Sources for the historian of medieval woodland / Péter Szabó -- Medieval hydraulic systems in Hungary: written sources, archaeology and interpretation / Kaŕoly Takaćs -- Landscape and the possibilities of archaeological topography / Edit Saŕosi -- Medieval villages and their landscape: methods of reconstruction / Csilla Zatykó -- Plant depictions in Late Medieval religious art / Ülle Sillasoo.