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BY-NC 4.0 license Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2020

The Little Ice Age and Byzantium within the Eastern Mediterranean, ca. 1200–1350: An Essay on Old Debates and New Scenarios

From the book The Crisis of the 14th Century

  • Johannes Preiser-Kapeller and Ekaterini Mitsiou
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110660784-010
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Abstract

This paper discusses written historical documentation and paleoenvironmental evidence in order to explore connections between climatic and socio-economic change. It focuses thereby on the Byzantine Empire and the eastern Mediterranean more generally in the period between the collapse and “restoration” of Byzantine rule in Constantinople (1204-1261) and the beginning of Ottoman expansion in the Balkans in 1352, which roughly coincided with the outbreak of the first wave of the “Black Death” in 1347. The paper entails juxtaposing various older scenarios of “fatal” social and political developments in Byzantine history with new studies based on proxy data from regions across the Balkans and Asia Minor and comparing these events with developments in other polities of the region during the transformation from the “Medieval Climate Anomaly” to the “Little Ice Age.”

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The Crisis of the 14th Century
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Contents
Teleconnections, Correlations, Causalities between Nature and Society? An Introductory Comment on the “Crisis of the Fourteenth Century”
Ventus vehemens et terribilis per totam Angliam: Responses and Reactions to a Short-term Crisis in the British Isles
The Potential of Late Medieval and Early Modern Narrative Sources from the Area of Modern Switzerland for the Climate History of the Fourteenth Century
Hic aues incipiunt cantare: Shifts in the Beginning of Seasons in Medieval Calendars of Rome and the Nordic Countries
Climate and the Crises of the Early Fourteenth Century in Northeastern Europe
Food Crisis in Fourteenth-Century Hungary: Indicators, Causes and Case Studies
The Crisis of 1315–1322 in Bresse as Depicted in Manorial Rolls
The Mongol Yuan Dynasty and the Climate, 1260–1360
Facing the Crisis in Medieval Florence: Climate Variability, Carestie, and Forms of Adaptation in the First Half of the Fourteenth Century
The Little Ice Age and Byzantium within the Eastern Mediterranean, ca. 1200–1350: An Essay on Old Debates and New Scenarios
Plague and Desertion – A Consequence of Anthropogenic Landscape Change? Archaeological Studies in Southern Germany
Narratives of Environmental Events in the Winchester Pipe Rolls and English Historiography of the Early Fourteenth Century
The Little Ice Age and the Hungarian Kingdom? Sources and Research Perspectives
Thoughts on a Connected Fourteenth Century
Index of Places
Index of Names
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