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IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 713: Climate, the Environment, and the Natural World in Byzantium, II: Art, Climate, Death, and Disease

Tuesday 6 July 2021, 14.15-15.45

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:Daniel K. Reynolds, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham
Paper 713-aNature into Art the Byzantine Way
(Language: English)
Liz James, Department of Art History, University of Sussex
Index terms: Art History - General, Byzantine Studies
Paper 713-bMosaic-Making and Climate Change in the Holy Land
(Language: English)
Henry Maguire, Department of the History of Art, Johns Hopkins University
Index terms: Art History - General, Byzantine Studies
Paper 713-cHealth and Disease in Early Byzantine Burials
(Language: English)
Laura M. Clark, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham
Index terms: Archaeology - General, Byzantine Studies, Medicine
Abstract

The impact of nature, climate, and the environment on visual images and material culture in Byzantium was very strong. Papers in this session evaluate images of the natural world, how climate change impacted on artisanal techniques, and evidence from burials of the effect of natural phenomena on human life.