The Medieval Climate Anomaly, the Oort Minimum, and Socio-Political Dynamics in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Byzantine Empire, 10th to 12th Century

Johannes Preiser-Kapeller

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Chapter 15 The Medieval Climate Anomaly, the Oort Minimum, and Socio-Political Dynamics in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Byzantine Empire, 10th to 12th Century

In: A Companion to the Environmental History of Byzantium

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Pages:: 405–488

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004689350_017

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The following chapter examines the palaeoclimatic background and the regional manifestations of the so-called “Medieval Climate Anomaly” in the Eastern Mediterranean, with a focus on the Byzantine Empire, but also including neighbouring polities. It explores the interplay between climatic factors and the socio-economic dynamics between the 10th and 12th centuries, concentrating on the late 10th and 11th centuries (also overlapping with the “Oort Solar Minimum”). In particular, it contrasts scenarios of an “economic boom” and of a “collapse of the Eastern Mediterranean” created in recent scholarship for this period and evaluates these notions based on a close reading (and citation) of historiographical and other written sources. Thereby, both the potentials and the problems of a combination of “archives of society” and “archives of nature” become evident.

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A Companion to the Environmental History of Byzantium

Series: Brill's Companions to the Byzantine World, Volume: 13

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004689350

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 23 Feb 2024

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