Format:
1 online resource (407 pages)
ISBN:
9789004392083
Content:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Setting the Scene for an Environmental History of Late Antiquity -- The Environmental History of the Late Antique Eastern Mediterranean: a Bibliographic Essay -- The Environmental History of the Late Antique West: a Bibliographic Essay -- Revisiting the Beyşehir Occupation Phase: Land-Cover Change and the Rural Economy in the Eastern Mediterranean during the First Millennium AD -- Regional Vegetation Histories: An Overview of the Pollen Evidence from the Central Mediterranean -- A Late Antique Vegetation History of the Western Mediterranean in Context -- Vegetation and Land-Use Change in Northern Europe during Late Antiquity: A Regional-Scale Pollen-Based Reconstruction -- Hadrian's Wall in Context: A Multi-Proxy Palaeoenvironmental Perspective from Lakes -- Variation in the Continuity of Land-Use Patterns through the First Millennium AD in Lowland Britain -- Late Antique Environment and Economy in the North of the Iberian Peninsula: The Site of La Tabacalera (Asturias, Spain) -- Olive Cultivation and Olive Products in Southern Apulia (6th-11th c.) -- Environment, Climate and Society in Roman and Byzantine Butrint -- Some Thoughts on Climate Change, Local Environment, and Grain Production in Byzantine Northern Anatolia -- Antioch in the Sixth Century: Resilience or Vulnerability? -- Human and Deltaic Environments in Northern Egypt in Late Antiquity -- Climatic Changes and Their Impacts in the Mediterranean during the First Millennium AD -- Mysterious and Mortiferous Clouds: The Climate Cooling and Disease Burden of Late Antiquity -- Invisible Environmental History: Infectious Disease in Late Antiquity -- Settlement, Land Use and Society in the Late Antique Mediterranean, 4th-7th c. An Overview -- Modelling the Supply of Wood Fuel in Ancient Rome.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004383791
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004383791
Language:
English
