Collapse of the Eastern Mediterranean - Climate Change and the Decline of the East, 950-1072

Informationen zum Autor Ronnie Ellenblum is an Associate Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a life member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. He is the author of the prize-winning Crusader Castles and Modern Histories (Cambridge, 2007). His first book, Frankish Rural Settlement in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (Cambridge, 1998), has become a standard work for the study of Crusader Geographies. Klappentext A provocative study of the devastating impact of climate change across the eastern Mediterranean in the tenth and eleventh centuries. Zusammenfassung This provocative study argues that many well-documented but apparently disparate events of the tenth and eleventh centuries - including drought and famine in Egypt! mass migrations in the steppes of central Asia! and population decline in urban centres such as Baghdad and Constantinople - were triggered by climatic and ecological change. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. The Collapse of the Eastern Mediterranean: 1. Presenting the events; 2. Deconstructing a 'collapse'; 3. 950-1027 - an impending disaster; Part II. Regional Domino Effects in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1027-60 AD: 4. The collapse of Iran; 5. The fall of Baghd¿d; 6. A crumbling empire: the Pechenegs and the decimation of Byzantium; 7. Egypt and its provinces, 1050s-1070s; Part III. Cities and Minorities: 8. Jerusalem and the decline of classical cities; 9. Water supply, declining cities and deserted villages; 10. Food crises and accelerated Islamization; 11. Reflections.

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• Authors: Roni Ellenblum, Ronnie Ellenblum, Ronnie (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Ellenblum, Ellenblum Ronnie
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.08.2012
• EAN: 9781107023352
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02335-2
• No. of pages: 284
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Middle East / General, Middle East, CE period up to c 1500, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Middle Eastern history, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, c 500 to c 1000 CE, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE