IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 513: Climate, the Environment, and the Natural World in Byzantium, I: Daily Life

Sponsor:	Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham
Organiser:	Leslie Brubaker, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies / Institute of Archaeology & Antiquity, University of Birmingham
Moderator/Chair:	Leslie Brubaker, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies / Institute of Archaeology & Antiquity, University of Birmingham
Paper 513-a	Bramble Bush and Shaded Mountain: The Place of the Theotokos in the Natural World (Language: English) Mary Cunningham, Institute of Archaeology & Antiquity, University of Birmingham Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Theology
Paper 513-b	Living in Pleasure: Physis and the Literati, 10th-14th Centuries (Language: English) Foteini Spingou, Ioannou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies, University of Oxford Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Language and Literature - Greek
Paper 513-c	Nature or Nurture: Perceptions of Ageing in Byzantium (Language: English) Stephanie Novasio, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Medicine
Abstract	The impact of nature, climate, and the environment on daily life was strong in the Byzantine world. Papers in this session analyse the use of natural imagery in religious, literary, and medical texts from the early, middle, and late Byzantine periods and evaluate the significance of the natural world in written expressions of daily life.