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IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 2217: Changing Forests: Forest Management in Long Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, III

Friday 9 July 2021, 14.15-15.45

Organiser:David Wallace-Hare, Department of Classics, University of Toronto
Moderator/Chair:Bernhard Muigg, Institut für Forstwissenschaften, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Paper 2217-aThe Gold of the Pine Forests: Resin Production and Uses in the Early and Middle Byzantine Empire
(Language: English)
Sophia Germanidou, McCord Centre for Landscape Archaeology, Newcastle University
Index terms: Archaeology - General, Archives and Sources, Byzantine Studies, Daily Life
Paper 2217-bPredefining the Early Medieval Forest: Roman Management of Forest Resources
(Language: English)
Andrew Fox, Department of Classics & Archaeology, University of Nottingham
Index terms: Economics - Rural, Language and Literature - Latin, Law
Abstract

Forests often represented border areas between cultivated land and wilderness and typically contained key resources the ownership of which was hotly contested and controlled. As hubs of changing and contested resources, forests expanded, contracted, and disappeared for a variety of reasons in the premodern age. The Changing Forests session series provides a cross-disciplinary approach examining forest use in a less studied but crucially important period for understanding forest dynamics, Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (3rd-10th century CE). Session III looks at technical terminology of forest management and non-timber forest products.