Climate and Political Climate: Environmental Disasters in the Medieval Levant - Couverture rigide

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Raphael, Sarah Kate

 
9789004216563: Climate and Political Climate: Environmental Disasters in the Medieval Levant
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 9004216561 ISBN 13 : 9789004216563
Editeur : Brill, 2013

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

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).

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Éditeur
Brill
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9004216561
ISBN 13 
9789004216563
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
230
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Personne responsable
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