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What does the bog do to you? Place meanings of raised bog landscapes since the Middle Ages
Few natural landscapes have been so negatively stereotyped as raised bogs. In the Netherlands, these wetlands covered large areas of land until well after the Middle Ages. Historical-geographical research has focused on large-scale reclamation and peat extraction and the traces these have left behind. This article describes specific meanings that bog landscapes have had to people, and to what extent we can explain these place meanings from the physical structure and materiality of bog landscapes. I address this from a cultural-geographical perspective, using examples from the Drenthe-Groningen Bourtanger Moor and the Brabant-Limburg Peel regions.
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