A Most Pleasant Scene and an Inexhaustible Resource

Steps Towards a Byzantine Environmental History. Interdisciplinary Conference November 17th and 18th 2011 in Mainz. Edited by Henriette Baron and Falko Daim.

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? The present conference volume brings together 6 german and 6 englisch 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. 275 Seiten mit 180 Farb- und 60 s/w-Abb., Großformat, gebunden (Byzanz zwischen Orient und Okzident; Band 6/[Schnell & Steiner]/Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 2017) ausgesondertes Bibliotheksexemplar mit entsprechenden Stempeln, Signatur auf Rücken und Inventarisierungsvermerken auf Vorsatz, textsauber/former library copy with stamp on endpaper and shelfmark on spine. Clean text pages