A Companion to the Environmental History of Byzantium

xvi, 552 pp.
ISBN: 978-90-04-68928-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 552 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 1247 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to the Byzantine World

How did humans and the environment impact each other in the medieval Eastern Mediterranean? How did global climatic fluctuations affect the Byzantine Empire over the course of a millennium? And how did the transmission of pathogens across long distances affect humans and animals during this period?

This book tackles these and other questions about the intersection of human and natural history in a systematic way. Bringing together analyses of historical, archaeological, and natural scientific evidence, specialists from across these fields have contributed to this volume to outline the new discipline of Byzantine environmental history.

Contributors are: Johan Bakker, Henriette Baron, Chryssa Bourbou, James Crow, Michael J. Decker, Warren J. Eastwood, Dominik Fleitmann, John Haldon, Adam Izdebski, Eva Kaptijn, Jürg Luterbacher, Henry Maguire, Mischa Meier, Lee Mordechai, Jeroen Poblome, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Abigail Sargent, Peter Talloen, Costas Tsiamis, Ralf Vandam, Myrto Veikou, Sam White, and Elena Xoplaki

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Izdebski, Adam

Preiser-Kapeller, Johannes

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Umweltgeschichte & Umweltarchäologie

Über Autor(innen)

Adam Izdebski, Ph.D. (2011), University of Warsaw, is an environmental historian and leads cross-disciplinary teams studying interactions of pandemics, climate, ecosystems and social change in Europe during the last 3000 years. He works as Independent Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology and is Professor of Human Ecology at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.

Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Ph.D. (2006), University of Vienna, is a researcher at the Department for Byzantine Research of the Institute for Medieval Research (Austrian Academy of Sciences) and lecturer in Byzantine and Global History at the University of Vienna. His research focuses on the history of Byzantium, the medieval Mediterranean, and the Caucasus in a global perspective, as well as on historical network analysis, complexity studies, and environmental history.