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Environment and society in Byzantium, 650-1150between the oak and the olive /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Environment and society in Byzantium, 650-1150by Alexander Olson.
Reminder of title:	between the oak and the olive /
Author:	Olson, Alexander.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2020.
Description:	xi, 258 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Nature and civilizationHistoryTo 1500.Greece
Subject:	Byzantine EmpireHistoriography.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59936-2
ISBN:	9783030599362$q(electronic bk.)

Environment and society in Byzantium, 650-1150between the oak and the olive /
Olson, Alexander.

Environment and society in Byzantium, 650-1150between the oak and the olive /[electronic resource] :by Alexander Olson. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2020. - xi, 258 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - New approaches to byzantine history and culture,2730-9363. - New approaches to byzantine history and culture..

1. Introduction -- 2. Middle Byzantium's Environmental and Economic Antecedents -- 3. An Evergreen Empire -- 4. The Decline of the Olive in Middle Byzantium -- 5. Re-arranging Woods and Scrub -- 6. The Return of the Olive -- 7. The Devil Chops Wood -- 8. Conclusion.

This book illuminates Byzantines' relationship with woodland between the seventh and twelfth centuries. Using the oak and the olive as objects of study, this work explores shifting economic strategies, environmental change, and the transformation of material culture throughout the middle Byzantine period. Drawing from texts, environmental data, and archaeological surveys, this book demonstrates that woodland's makeup was altered after Byzantium's seventh-century metamorphosis, and that people interacted in new ways with this re-worked ecology. Oak obtained prominence after late antiquity, illustrating the shift from that earlier era's intensive agriculture to a more sylvan middle Byzantine economy. Meanwhile, the olive faded into the background, re-emerging in the eleventh and twelfth centuries thanks to the initiative of people adapting yet again to newly changed political and economic circumstances. This book therefore shows that Byzantines' relationship with their ecology was far from static, and that Byzantines' decisions had environmental impacts.

ISBN: 9783030599362$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-59936-2doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

881425
Nature and civilization
--History--Greece--To 1500.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

393071
Byzantine Empire
--Historiography.

LC Class. No.: CB460 / .O476 2020

Dewey Class. No.: 333.7094950902

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