Römisch Germanisches Zentralmuseum / Byzanz zwischen Orient und Okzident

Steps Towards a Byzantine Environmental History

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What do we know about the environments in which the Byzantine Empire unfolded in the eastern Mediterranean? How were they perceived and how did man and the environment mutually influence each other during the Byzantine millennium? Which approaches have been tried up until now to understand these interactions? And what could a further environmental-historical research agenda look like?