Reviews for The monophonic lauda & the lay religious confraternities of Tuscany & Umbria in the late Middle Ages

The average rating for The monophonic lauda & the lay religious confraternities of Tuscany & Umbria in the late Middle Ages based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-10-10 00:00:00 Alesia Cabral In the year 1962, January, on Jacob sixth birthday, Jacob was taken to Melbourne Zoo, where he rode an elephant. The children climbed a scaffold and perched on rough wooden benches atop the elephant's back, where Jacob fingers furtively reached for a feel of its warm skin. Jacob said he was dimly aware of the danger involved in mounting such an enormous beast, and the hooked ankhs, or elephant goad, held by the mahout alerted him to the possibility that the creature led a miserable life. But yet Jacob was grateful for the experience, since it sparked a respect for and love of elephants that has persisted all my life. The Asian elephant is the second-largest land mammal on earth. Highly intelligent, immensely powerful, and with life spans as long as humans', they have forged a unique relationship with them. Jacob Shell is a geographer whose new book, Giants of the Monsoon Forest, posits a novel and challenging view of this association. While acknowledging that elephants can suffer at human hands, Shell believes that the relationship has helped both Asian elephants and the humans who work with them to survive in the modern world.

Review # 2 was written on 2021-01-01 00:00:00 Gregory Welch Great overview of Asian elephants as well as a good source of specific information regarding populations throughout their range. I found it very useful during my M.Sc. dissertation regarding human impacts on Sumatran elephants.