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Title Environment and society in the long late antiquity / edited by Adam Izdebski and Michael Mulryan
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 185 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
Series Late antique archaeology ; volumes 11-12
Late antique archaeology ; volumes 11-12.
Contents Setting the scene for an environmental history of late antiquity / Adam Izdebski -- The environmental history of the late antique Eastern Mediterranean : a bibliographic essay / Lucas McMahon and Abigail Sargent -- The environmental history of the late antique West : a bibliographic essay / Merle Eisenberg, David J. Patterson, Jamie Kreiner, Ellen F. Arnold, and Timothy P. Newfield -- Regional vegetation histories : overview of the pollen evidence revisiting the Beyșehir occupation phase : land-cover change and the rural economy in the Eastern Mediterranean during the first millennium AD / Neil Roberts -- Regional vegetation histories : an overview of the pollen evidence from the Central Mediterranean / Katerina Kouli, Alessia Masi, Anna Maria Mercuri, Assunta Florenzano, and Laura Sadori -- A late antique vegetation history of the Western Mediterranean in context / Jose Antonio Lopez-Saez, Sebastian Perez-Diaz, Didier Galop, Francisca Alba-Sanchez and Daniel Abel-Schaad -- Vegetation and land-use change in Northern Europe during late antiquity : a regional-scale pollen-based reconstruction / Jessie Woodbridge, Neil Roberts and Ralph Fyfe -- West Hadrian's wall in context : a multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental perspective from lakes / Petra Dark -- Variation in the continuity of land-use patterns through the first Millennium AD in Lowland Britain / Stephen Rippon and Ralph Fyfe -- Late antique environment and economy in the north of the Iberian Peninsula : the site of la Tabacalera (Asturias, Spain) / Leonor Pena-Chocarro, Almudena Orejas Saco del Valle, Yolanda Carrion Marco, Sebastian Perez-Diaz, Jose Antonio Lopez-Saez, and Carmen Fernandez Ochoa -- Olive cultivation and olive products in Southern Apulia (6th-11th c.) / Giovanni Stranieri -- Environment, climate and society in Roman and Byzantine Butrint / Mario Morellon, Gaia Sinopoli, Adam Izdebski, Laura Sadori, Flavio Anselmetti, Richard Hodges, Eleonora Regattieri, Bernd Wagner, Brunhilda Brushulli and Daniel Ariztegui -- Some thoughts on climate change, local environment, and grain production in Byzantine Northern Anatolia / John Haldon -- Antioch in the sixth century : resilience or vulnerability? / Lee Mordechai -- Human and deltaic environments in Northern Egypt in late antiquity / Penelope Wilson -- Climatic changes and their impacts in the Mediterranean during the first millennium AD / Inga Labuhn, Martin Finne, Adam Izdebski, Neil Roberts and Jessie Woodbridge -- Mysterious and mortiferous clouds : the climate cooling and disease burden of late antiquity / Timothy P. Newfield -- Invisible environmental history : infectious disease in late antiquity / Kyle Harper -- Settlement, land use and society in the late antique Mediterranean, 4th-7th c. : an overview / Alexandra Chavarria, Tamara Lewit and Adam Izdebski -- Modelling the supply of wood fuel in ancient Rome / Benjamin Graham and Raymond Van Dam -- Rye's rise and Rome's fall : agriculture and climate in Europe during late antiquity / Paolo Squatriti -- Contours of environmental change and human response in late antiquity / Kyle Harper -- The environmental turn : roll over Chris Wickham? / Mark Whittow -- Catastrophes aside : environment and the end of antiquity / Adam Izdebski
Summary "Environment and Society in the Long Late Antiquity brings together scientific, archaeological and historical evidence on the interplay of social change and environmental phenomena at the end of Antiquity and the dawn of the Middle Ages, covering the period ca. 300-800 AD. It gives a new impetus to the study of the environmental history of this crucial period of transition between two major epochs in premodern history. The volume contains both systematic overviews of the previous scholarship and available data, as well as a number of interdisciplinary case studies. It covers a wide range of topics, including the histories of landscape, climate, disease and earthquakes, all intertwined with social, cultural, economic and political developments"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Human ecology -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
Social change -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
human ecology.
HISTORY -- Social History.
Climatic changes -- Social aspects
Human ecology
Social change
Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Izdebski, Adam, editor.
Mulryan, Michael, editor.
LC no. 2019009549
ISBN 9789004392083
9004392084