ISBN:
9789004689350
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 online resource (570 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Serie:
Brill's Companions to the Byzantine World Series v.13
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
304.2094950902
Kurzfassung:
This volume is the first systematic survey of the environmental and climatic history of the Byzantine empire.
Kurzfassung:
Intro -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Environmental History of Byzantium. An Introduction -- Part 1 The Basics: Methods and Evidence -- Chapter 1 Palaeoclimatology of Byzantine Lands (AD 300-1500) -- Chapter 2 Palynology and Historical Research -- Chapter 3 The Byzantine "Ecosystem": Evidence from the Bioarchaeological Record -- Chapter 4 Historical Epidemiology of the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean -- Chapter 5 Animals and the Byzantine Environment: Zooarchaeological Approaches -- Chapter 6 Historical Seismology -- Part 2 Case Studies: Environmental History at Work -- Chapter 7 The Byzantines and Nature in the Christian Worldview -- Chapter 8 Water and the Urban Environment of Constantinople and Thessaloniki -- Chapter 9 Continuities and Discontinuities in the Agriculture of the Levant in the Late Antique and Early Islamic Period -- Chapter 10 Sagalassos and Its Environs during Late Roman and Byzantine Times -- Chapter 11 Euchaïta, Landscape and Climate in the Byzantine Period -- Chapter 12 Ecology, Irrigation and Lordship in the Lake Van Region: A Long-Term View from Urartu to Vaspurakan -- Chapter 13 Sea of Agency: Islands and Coasts of the Byzantine Aegean in Environmental Perspective -- Chapter 14 "The Other Age of Justinian": Environment, Extreme Events, and the Transformation of the Mediterranean, 5th-7th Century -- Chapter 15 The Medieval Climate Anomaly, the Oort Minimum, and Socio-Political Dynamics in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Byzantine Empire, 10th to 12th Century -- Chapter 16 The Ecology of the Crusader States -- Chapter 17 The Little Ice Age in the Eastern Mediterranean, 14th-17th Centuries -- Bibliography -- Index of Place Names -- Index of Names.
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