New Book: "Environment and Society during the long Late Antiquity"
Adam Izdebski, Independent Group Leader of PS&H, initiated and co-edited a new volume, the first of its kind for the history of the first millennium AD, written by scientists, historians and archaeologists.
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"Environment and Society during the long Late Antiquity", published by Brill, unites perspectives from a variety of disciplines from within the natural sciences and the humanities, and offers a first comprehensive survey of environmental phenomena that accompanied the end of Antiquity and the birth of the Middle Ages.
The diverse team of authors, including many members of PS&H, addresses topics such as epidemics, earthquakes, landscape changes or climatic fluctuations, drawing on historical, archaeological and palaeo-scientific sources. It offers a new vision of the environmental history of Antiquity, nuanced and non-catastrophist, showing the entire palette of human interactions with the natural environment at times of dynamic social, political, economic and cultural change.