Ronnie Ellenblum

Collapse of the Eastern Mediterranean (eBook, ePUB)

Climate Change and the Decline of the East, 950-1072

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As a 'Medieval Warm Period' prevailed in Western Europe during the tenth and eleventh centuries, the eastern Mediterranean region, from the Nile to the Oxus, was suffering from a series of climatic disasters which led to the decline of some of the most important civilizations and cultural centres of the time. This provocative study argues that many well-documented but apparently disparate events - such as recurrent drought and famine in Egypt, mass migrations in the steppes of central Asia, and the decline in population in urban centres such as Baghdad and Constantinople - are connected and should be understood within the broad context of climate change. Drawing on a wealth of textual and archaeological evidence, Ronnie Ellenblum explores the impact of climatic and ecological change across the eastern Mediterranean in this period, to offer a new perspective on why this was a turning point in the history of the Islamic world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139564618
• Artikelnr.: 52947363

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.