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Auteur(s) : Olson, Alexander Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : Environment and society in Byzantium, 650-1150 [Texte imprimé] : between the oak and the olive / Alexander Olson

Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xi, 258 pages) ; 22 cm

Collection : New approaches to Byzantine history and culture

Lien à la collection : New approaches to Byzantine history and culture

Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-254) and index
This book illuminates Byzantines' relationship with woodland between the seventh and twelfth centuries. Using the oak and the olive as objects of study, this work explores shifting economic strategies, environmental change, and the transformation of material culture throughout the middle Byzantine period. Drawing from texts, environmental data, and archaeological surveys, this book demonstrates that woodland's makeup was altered after Byzantium's seventh-century metamorphosis, and that people interacted in new ways with this re-worked ecology. Oak obtained prominence after late antiquity, illustrating the shift from that earlier era's intensive agriculture to a more sylvan middle Byzantine economy. Meanwhile, the olive faded into the background, re-emerging in the eleventh and twelfth centuries thanks to the initiative of people adapting yet again to newly changed political and economic circumstances. This book therefore shows that Byzantines' relationship with their ecology was far from static, and that Byzantines' decisions had environmental impacts

Sujet(s) : Nature et culture -- Empire byzantin Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Forêts -- Empire byzantin Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Environnement -- Empire byzantin Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9783030599362. - ISBN 3030599361. - ISBN 3030599353 (erroné). - ISBN 9783030599355 (erroné)

Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb470117046

Notice n° : FRBNF47011704 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)

Table des matières : 1. Introduction ; 2. Middle Byzantium's Environmental and Economic Antecedents ; 3. An Evergreen Empire ; 4. The Decline of the Olive in Middle Byzantium ; 5. Re-arranging Woods and Scrub ; 6. The Return of the Olive ; 7. The Devil Chops Wood ; 8. Conclusion.