The Natural Environment in Late Byzantine Correspondence
Series: New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture;
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Product details:
- Edition number 2024
- Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
- Date of Publication 26 May 2025
- Number of Volumes 2 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9783031661778
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages512 pages
- Size 210x148 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations XXXI, 512 p. In 2 volumes, not available separately. Illustrations, color 700
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Short description:
This book investigates environmental issues traced through the epistolography of the late Byzantine period, which spans roughly the end of the twelfth century to the mid-fifteenth century. The book's overarching goal is to shed light on the complex ways in which the Byzantines conceptualised their connection to the natural world, both in broad strokes and in finer granularity, and to provide a general understanding of societal dependence on the environment. It offers further details of this relationship by drawing on a wide variety of literary sources, as well as archaeological and environmental data.
Kalliope Mavrommati is an independent scholar who holds a PhD from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
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This book investigates environmental issues traced through the epistolography of the late Byzantine period, which spans roughly the end of the twelfth century to the mid-fifteenth century. The book's overarching goal is to shed light on the complex ways in which the Byzantines conceptualised their connection to the natural world, both in broad strokes and in finer granularity, and to provide a general understanding of societal dependence on the environment. It offers further details of this relationship by drawing on a wide variety of literary sources, as well as archaeological and environmental data.
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Part I: Natural and Human Settings: Introductions.- Chapter 1: Environmental history and Byzantine Studies.- Chapter 2: Mediterranean ecosystems, natural resources, and agricultural tradition.- Chapter 3: The philosophical and rhetorical tradition.- Chapter 4: The annual cycle as an axis of human activity.- Chapter 5: Politics, economy and environment from the Middle to the Late Byzantine period.- Part II: Environment, Settlement, and Landscapes.- Chapter 6: The Land.- Chapter 7: Air and Water.- Chapter 8: Woodlands.- Part III: Meteorological and seismic phenomena.- Chapter 9: From the Medieval Warm Period to The Little Ice Age.- Chapter 10: Tempests, pirates, and a changing climate.- Part IV: Beasts.- Chapter 11: Approaches to the alogos cosmos.- Chapter 12: Details of daily life.- Chapter 13: Final Remark: The natural environment in the Byzantine Correspondence.
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