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A most pleasant scene and an inexhaustible resource : steps towards a Byzantine environmental history : interdisciplinary conference, November 17th and 18th 2011 in Mainz
Title
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.).
ISBN
9783884672785
3884672789
9783795432386
3795432383
Publication
Mainz [Germany] : Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, [2017]
Copyright Notice Date
©2017
Physical Description
275 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 31 cm.
Notes
International conference proceedings.
Contributions in English and German; summaries in German and English.
Summary
"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.
Variant and related titles
Steps towards a Byzantine environmental history
Format
Books
Language
English; German
Added to Catalog
April 03, 2018
Series
Byzanz zwischen Orient und Okzident ; 6
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
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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Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
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