Overview
- Illuminates Byzantines' relationship with woodland between the seventh and twelfth centuries
- Explores shifting economic strategies, environmental change, and the transformation of material culture throughout the middle Byzantine period
- Argues that Byzantines' relationship with their ecology was far from static, and that Byzantines' decisions had environmental impacts
Part of the book series: New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture (NABHC)
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Book Title: Environment and Society in Byzantium, 650-1150
Book Subtitle: Between the Oak and the Olive
Authors: Alexander Olson
Series Title: New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59936-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-59935-5Published: 17 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-59938-6Published: 17 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-59936-2Published: 16 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2730-9363
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9371
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 258
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Medieval Europe, Social History, Environment Studies