IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 813: Climate, the Environment, and the Natural World in Byzantium, III: Environmental Adaptation and Social History

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:	Liz James, Department of Art History, University of Sussex
Paper 813-a	Cotton Production and Environmental Adaptation in the First Millennium: A Chicken or Egg Argument (Language: English) Anna C. Kelley, Department of Classics, Ancient History & Archaeology, University of Birmingham Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Economics - Trade, Technology
Paper 813-b	Political Climates: Climatology in the Byzantine Negev and the Politics of State Building during the British Mandate (Language: English) Daniel K. Reynolds, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Politics and Diplomacy
Abstract	The impact of nature, climate, and the environment on production techniques in the Byzantine world, and how our understanding of these impacts affect our perception of the Byzantine past are both issues currently under debate. The papers in this session examine these issues from environmental and theoretical perspectives that move the issues firmly into the world of modern historiography.