A most pleasant scene and an inexhaustible resource : steps towards a Byzantine environmental history : interdisciplinary conference, November 17th and 18th 2011 in Mainz / Henriette Baron, Falko Daim (eds.).

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  • English
  • German
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  • Mainz [Germany] : Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, [2017]
  • ©2017
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275 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 31 cm.

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    "What do we know about the environments in which the Byzantine Empire unfolded in the eastern Mediterranean? How were they perceived and how did man and the environment mutually influence each other during the Byzantine millennium (AD 395-1453)? Which approaches have been tried up until now to understand these interactions? And what could a further environmental-historical research agenda look like? These questions were the focus of an interdisciplinary conference that took place on 17 and 18 November 2011 in Mainz. The present conference volume brings together contributions from researchers who have approached these issues from very different perspectives. They focus on the explanatory power of traditional as well as "new" sources and the methods of Byzantine Studies and Byzantine archaeology for this hitherto little-explored sphere. In this way, we see how closely environmental history is interwoven with the classical topics of Byzantine research - be they of an economic, social or culture-historical nature."-- Publisher's website.
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    International conference proceedings.
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    Includes bibliographical references.
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    Contributions in English and German; summaries in German and English.
    Contents
    • Introduction - Steps Towards an Environmental History of the Byzantine Empire / Henriette Baron
    • Siedlungsökologie und Landnutzungsstrategien im byzantinischen Osten / Rainer Schreg
    • Rural Byzantine Landscapes of the Eastern Mediterranean: New Approaches to Characterisation and Analysis / Katie Green
    • Responding to Byzantine Environments: Then and Now / Marlia Mundell Mango
    • The Economy, the Countryside, Forts and Towns: The Early Byzantine Period on the Lower Danube during the 4th -6th Centuries AD / Andrew G. Poulter
    • Wilde und gezähmte Natur. Beobachtungen zur Wahrnehmung von Natur und Landschaft in der byzantinischen Literatur / Carolina Cupane
    • "Der Wald, ein Ort, der von Bäumen bestanden wird, der von Feuchtigkeit gedeiht, eine Anhäufung von Holz, ein Morast" / Stefan Albrecht
    • Environmental Archaeology and Byzantine Southern Italy / Paul Arthur
    • Die byzantinische Kulturlandschaft - Kulturpflanzen als Indikatoren für byzantinische Mensch-Umwelt-Interaktionen / Anna Elena Reuter
    • An Approach to Byzantine Environmental History: Human-Animal Interactions / Henriette Baron
    • Exploiting the Landscape: Quantifying the Material Resources Used in the Construction of the Long-distance Water Supply of Constantinople / J. Riley Snyder
    • Byzantinisches Mönchtum und Umwelt / Johannes Koder
    • Die Wahrnehmung von Klima, Wetter und Naturkatastrophen in Syrien in den literarischen Quellen des 6.-9. Jahrhunderts / Klaus-Peter Todt, Bernd Andreas Vest.
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    Steps towards a Byzantine environmental history
    ISBN
    • 9783884672785
    • 3884672789
    • 9783795432386
    • 3795432383
    LCCN
    2020288778
    OCLC
    1022946474
    International Article Number
    • 9783795432386
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