Summary Who had a say in making decisions about the natural world, when, how and to what end? How were rights to natural resources established? How did communities handle environmental crises? And how did dealing with the environment have an impact on the power relations in communities? This volume explores communities' relationship with the natural environment in customs and laws, ideas, practices and memories. Taking a transregional perspective, it considers how the availability of natural resources in diverse societies within and outside Europe impacted mobility and gender structures, the consolidation of territorial power and property rights. Communities, Environment and Regulation in the Premodern World marks Peter Hoppenbrouwers's career, spanning over three decades, as a professor of medieval history at Leiden University. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Figures, Tables, and Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction. Peter Hoppenbrouwers: Portrait of a Dedicated, Versatile and Skilful Medievalist Robert Stein, Claire Weeda and Louis Sicking Bachofen Redivivus? Female-biased Kinship in World History Jeroen Duindam Peasants' Voices in Territorial Politics Wim Blockmans No Second Lord. Agriculture and Climatic Variability in the Late Medieval Low Countries Tim Soens The Porous City: Dealing with Public Health Crises in Fifteenth-Century Sint-Truiden Claire Weeda Hunger tales: Remembering Famine in Sixteenth-Century Leiden Judith Pollmann Who Owns and Controls the Water? Water Management in Mamluk Cairo Maaike van Berkel The Wilderness of Holland. From Hunting Ground to Well-Administered Part of the Domains Robert Stein The Great Transformation of the Dune Ridge Landscape. How Water Management, Peat Extraction and Sand Excavation Led to Agricultural Innovation in the Dune Region between Haarlem and Leiden, 1400-1650 Petra van Dam The Law of Wreck in Flanders, Holland and Zeeland in the Late Middle Ages Louis Sicking and Jan de Klerk The Counts of Nassau and the Performance of Lordship in Late Medieval Brabant Mario Damen Personal Violence in the Frisian Countryside Hans Mol The Safavids Between Pen and Sword Gabrielle van den Berg