IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 1236: The Mediterranean and Southern France, II: Beyond Braudel - The State of Medieval Environmental History

Wednesday 6 July 2022, 14.15-15.45

Organiser:	John H. Arnold, King's College, University of Cambridge
Moderator/Chair:	Daniel Smail, Department of History, Harvard University
Paper 1236-a	The State of Medieval Environmental History in the Mediterranean (Language: English) Steven Bednarski, Department of History, University of Waterloo, Ontario Index terms: Architecture - General, Historiography - Medieval, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Science
Paper 1236-b	Étudier les perturbations climatiques au Moyen Âge: L'exemple de Montpellier et son arrière-pays (Sud de France) (Language: Français) Lucie Galano, Centre d'Études Médiévales de Montpellier, Université de Montpellier III - Paul Valéry Geneviève Dumas, Département d'histoire, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec Index terms: Economics - Rural, Economics - Urban, Local History, Social History
Paper 1236-c	The Migration of Birds across Late Antique and Early Medieval Arts (Language: English) Danielle Joyner, Department of Art & Art History Lawrence University Wisconsin Index terms: Art History - General, Art History - Painting, Daily Life, Pagan Religions
Abstract	During the Middle Ages, political borders did not isolate southern France from its Mediterranean neighbors. The sessions in this series are designed to bring the region's rich historiography out of its local context and to connect southern France to the field of Mediterranean studies. This session, featuring a team of Canada-based speakers, explores key themes in the environmental history of southern France. Although historians were slow to embrace the concept of nature as an historical protagonist, as called for by Braudel, interest has accelerated in the last decade as scholars have grafted new, interdisciplinary approaches onto more traditional historical inquiries.