TY  - JOUR
AU  - Albrecht Classen
PY  - 2025
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
JF  - Mediaevistik
IS  - 1
VL  - 38
SN  - 2199-806X
TI  - Annette Kehnel, The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability. Trans. from the German by Gesche Ipsen. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2024, 342 pp., 45 b/w ill.
DO  - 10.3726/med.2025.01.05
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1673032
N2  - While I am writing this review, Annette Kehnel is about to publish a new book (Sept. 2024, Die sieben Todsünden: Menschheitswissen für das Zeitalter der Krise) in which she appears to pick up the notion of the Seven Deadly Sins as a fundamental teaching for humankind today facing a global crisis. Those seven vices are, indeed, universal shortcomings in human life, and Kehnel suggests, as I have already done in the past (Wisdom from the European Middle Ages, 2022; or see my blog, “Seven Deadly Sins in Politics, no less and no more,” Elephant Journal, online at: 
KW  - annette, kehnel, green, ages, medieval, innovations, sustainability, trans, german, gesche, ipsen, waltham, brandeis, university, press
ER  -