Environment and society in the long late antiquity / edited by Adam Izdebski and Michael Mulryan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Izdebski, Adam, editor.

Mulryan, Michael, editor.

Series:

Late antique archaeology ; volumes 11-12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--Europe--History--To 1500.

Human ecology.

Social change--Europe--History--To 1500.

Social change.

Climatic changes--Social aspects--History--Europe--To 1500.

Climatic changes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (387 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

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 circa 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. Contributors are Daniel Abel-Schaad , Francesca Alba-Sánchez, Flavio Anselmetti, José Antonio López-Sáez, Daniel Ariztegui, Brunhilda Brushulli, Yolanda Carrión Marco, Alexandra Chavarría, Petra Dark, Carmen Fernández Ochoa, Martin Finné, Asuunta Florenzano, Ralph Fyfe,Didier Galop, Benjamin Graham, John Haldon, Kyle Harper, Richard Hodges, Adam Izdebski, Katarina Kouli, Inga Labuhn, Tamara Lewit, Anna Maria Mercuri, Alessia Masi, Lucas McMahon, Lee Mordechai, Mario Morellón, Timothy Newfield, Almudena Orejas Saco del Valle, Leonor Peña-Chocarro, Sebastián Pérez-Díaz, Eleonora Regattieri, Stephen Rippon, Neil Roberts, Laura Sadori, Abigail Sargent, Gaia Sinopoli, Paolo Squatriti, Giovanni Stranieri, Raymond van Dam, Bernd Wagner, Mark Whittow, Penelope Wilson, Jessie Woodbridge.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page

Dedication

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Introductory Essay

Setting the Scene for an Environmental History of Late Antiquity / Adam Izdebski

Bibliographic Essays

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 Beyşehir 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 / José Antonio López-Sáez , Sebastián Pérez-Díaz , Didier Galop , Francisca Alba-Sánchez 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

Case Studies – 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 Peña-Chocarro , Almudena Orejas Saco del Valle , Yolanda Carrión Marco , Sebastián Pérez-Díaz , José Antonio López-Sáez and Carmen Fernández Ochoa

Olive Cultivation and Olive Products in Southern Apulia (6th–11th c.) / Giovanni Stranieri

Case Studies – East

Environment, Climate and Society in Roman and Byzantine Butrint / Mario Morellón , 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

General Surveys

Climatic Changes and Their Impacts in the Mediterranean during the First Millennium AD / Inga Labuhn , Martin Finné , 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 Chavarría , 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

90-04-39208-4

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004392083 DOI