Climate and Political Climate: Environmental Disasters in the Medieval Levant

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-21656-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 491 g

Reihe: Brill's Series in the History of the Environment

The twelfth and thirteenth centuries in the Levant saw a substantial rise in the number of droughts. This coincided with some of the most violent tectonic activity the region had witnessed. Nature, however, could conjure other powerful disasters: swarms of locusts, armies of mice, scorching winds and thick dust storms.
The data for this research is drawn from contemporary Arabic and Latin sources. The main aim is to try and determine the long and short-term repercussions of environmental disasters on the political, military and social affairs in the Levant during the Crusader, Ayyubid and Mamluk periods. Did environmental disasters spur or hinder conflict?
This research examines the most destructive disasters and gradual climate changes within a broader historical context.

Zielgruppe

This book is meant for BA, MA, PhD students and scholars in the following fields: history, climate, geology, geography and environmental studies. General academic libraries, and libraries of Institutes that serve students and scholars that study and research the medieval Middle East.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Raphael, Sarah Kate

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Naturgewalten & Katastrophen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Umweltgeschichte & Umweltarchäologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geschichte der Geowissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Raphael, Sarah Kate
Sarah Kate Raphael, Ph. D. (2008), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Currently works as an archaeologists in Jerusalem. She has published articles on the medieval Levant and a book, Muslim Fortresses in the Levant Between Crusaders and Mongols (Routledge, 2010).

Sarah Kate Raphael, Ph. D. (2008), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Currently works as an archaeologists in Jerusalem. She has published articles on the medieval Levant and a book, Muslim Fortresses in the Levant Between Crusaders and Mongols (Routledge, 2010).