Health And Disease In Byzantine Crete 7th 12th Centuries Ad

Author : Chryssi Bourbou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317123408

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Health and Disease in Byzantine Crete (7th–12th centuries AD) by Chryssi Bourbou Pdf

Daily life and living conditions in the Byzantine world are relatively underexplored subjects, often neglected in comparison with more visible aspects of Byzantine culture, such as works of art. The book is among the few publications on Greek Byzantine populations and helps pioneer a new approach to the subject, opening a window on health status and dietary patterns through the lens of bioarchaeological research. Drawing on a diversity of disciplines (biology, chemistry, archaeology and history), the author focuses on the complex interaction between physiology, culture and the environment in Byzantine populations from Crete in the 7th to 12th centuries. The systematic analysis and interpretation of the mortality profiles, the observed pathological conditions, and of the chemical data, all set in the cultural context of the era, brings new evidence to bear on the reconstruction of living conditions in Byzantine Crete. Individual chapters look at the demographic profiles and mortality patterns of adult and non-adult populations, and study dietary habits and breastfeeding and weaning patterns. In addition, this book provides an indispensable body of primary data for future research in these fields, and so furthers an interdisciplinary approach in tracing the health of the past populations.

Author : Chryssi Bourbou
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Crete (Greece)
ISBN : 1315586312

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Health and Disease in Byzantine Crete (7th-12th Centuries AD) by Chryssi Bourbou Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004689350

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A Companion to the Environmental History of Byzantium by Anonim Pdf

How did humans and the environment impact each other in the medieval Eastern Mediterranean? How did global climatic fluctuations affect the Byzantine Empire over the course of a millennium? And how did the transmission of pathogens across long distances affect humans and animals during this period? This book tackles these and other questions about the intersection of human and natural history in a systematic way. Bringing together analyses of historical, archaeological, and natural scientific evidence, specialists from across these fields have contributed to this volume to outline the new discipline of Byzantine environmental history. Contributors are: Johan Bakker, Henriette Baron, Chryssa Bourbou, James Crow, Michael J. Decker, Warren J. Eastwood, Dominik Fleitmann, John Haldon, Adam Izdebski, Eva Kaptijn, Jürg Luterbacher, Henry Maguire, Mischa Meier, Lee Mordechai, Jeroen Poblome, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Abigail Sargent, Peter Talloen, Costas Tsiamis, Ralf Vandam, Myrto Veikou, Sam White, and Elena Xoplaki

Author : Nikolas Bakirtzis,Luca Zavagno
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429515750

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The Routledge Handbook of the Byzantine City by Nikolas Bakirtzis,Luca Zavagno Pdf

The Byzantine world contained many important cities throughout its empire. Although it was not ‘urban’ in the sense of the word today, its cities played a far more fundamental role than those of its European neighbors. This book, through a collection of twenty-four chapters, discusses aspects of, and different approaches to, Byzantine urbanism from the early to late Byzantine periods. It provides both a chronological and thematic perspective to the study of Byzantine cities, bringing together literary, documentary, and archival sources with archaeological results, material culture, art, and architecture, resulting in a rich synthesis of the variety of regional and sub-regional transformations of Byzantine urban landscapes. Organized into four sections, this book covers: Theory and Historiography, Geography and Economy, Architecture and the Built Environment, and Daily Life and Material Culture. It includes more specialized accounts that address the centripetal role of Constantinople and its broader influence across the empire. Such new perspectives help to challenge the historiographical balance between ‘margins and metropolis,’ and also to include geographical areas often regarded as peripheral, like the coastal urban centers of the Byzantine Mediterranean as well as cities on islands, such as Crete, Cyprus, and Sicily which have more recently yielded well-excavated and stratigraphically sound urban sites. The Routledge Handbook of the Byzantine City provides both an overview and detailed study of the Byzantine city to specialist scholars, students, and enthusiasts alike and, therefore, will appeal to all those interested in Byzantine urbanism and society, as well as those studying medieval society in general.

Author : Sophia Germanidou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000537345

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Secular Byzantine Women by Sophia Germanidou Pdf

Secular Byzantine Women examines female material culture during the Late Roman, Byzantine, and Post-Byzantine eras, to better understand the lives of ordinary and humble women during this period. Although recent scholarship has contributed greatly to our knowledge of Byzantine and medieval women, such research has largely focused on female saints, imperial figures, and prominent women of local communities. But what about secular and non-privileged women? Bringing together scholars from various fields, including archaeology, history, theology, anthropology, and ethnography, this volume seeks to answer this important question. The chapters examine the everyday lives of lay women, including their working routines, their clothing, and precious possessions. This book will appeal to scholars and students of Byzantine history, art, and archaeology, as well as those interested in gender and material culture studies.

Author : Philipp Niewöhner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780190610463

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The Archaeology of Byzantine Anatolia by Philipp Niewöhner Pdf

"The volume propounds a new understanding of the hitherto enigmatic medievalisation of the Roman empire, provides English presentations of foreign-language research, and can serve as a textbook that may help to establish Anatolian archaeology more widely in academic curricula worldwide"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Fotini Kondyli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108845496

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Rural Communities in Late Byzantium by Fotini Kondyli Pdf

Argues that Late Byzantine rural communities were resilient and able to transform their socioeconomic strategies in the face of crisis.

Author : J. Rasmus Brandt,Erika Hagelberg,Gro Bjørnstad,Sven Ahrens
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785703621

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Life and Death in Asia Minor in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Times by J. Rasmus Brandt,Erika Hagelberg,Gro Bjørnstad,Sven Ahrens Pdf

Life and Death in Asia Minor combines contributions in both archaeology and bioarchaeology in Asia Minor in the period ca. 200 BC – AD 1300 for the first time. The archaeology topics are wide-ranging including death and territory, death and landscape perception, death and urban transformations from pagan to Christian topography, changing tomb typologies, funerary costs, family organization, funerary rights, rituals and practices among pagans, Jews, and Christians, inhumation and Early Byzantine cremations and use and reuse of tombs. The bioarchaeology chapters use DNA, isotope and osteological analyses to discuss, both among children and adults, questions such as demography and death rates, pathology and nutrition, body actions, genetics, osteobiography, and mobility patterns and diet. The areas covered in Asia Minor include the sites of Hierapolis, Laodikeia, Aphrodisias, Tlos, Ephesos, Priene, Kyme, Pergamon, Amorion, Gordion, Boğazkale, and Arslantepe. The theoretical and methodological approaches used make it highly relevant for people working in other geographical areas and time periods. Many of the articles could be used as case studies in teaching at schools and universities. An important objective of the publication has been to see how the different types of results emerging from archaeological and natural science studies respectively could be integrated with each other and pose new questions on ancient societies, which were far more complex than historical and social studies of the past often manage to transmit.

Author : Paul Stephenson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674269453

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New Rome by Paul Stephenson Pdf

A comprehensive new history of the Eastern Roman Empire based on the science of the human past. As modern empires rise and fall, ancient Rome becomes ever more significant. We yearn for Rome’s power but fear Rome’s ruin—will we turn out like the Romans, we wonder, or can we escape their fate? That question has obsessed centuries of historians and leaders, who have explored diverse political, religious, and economic forces to explain Roman decline. Yet the decisive factor remains elusive. In New Rome, Paul Stephenson looks beyond traditional texts and well-known artifacts to offer a novel, scientifically minded interpretation of antiquity’s end. It turns out that the descent of Rome is inscribed not only in parchments but also in ice cores and DNA. From these and other sources, we learn that pollution and pandemics influenced the fate of Constantinople and the Eastern Roman Empire. During its final five centuries, the empire in the east survived devastation by natural disasters, the degradation of the human environment, and pathogens previously unknown to the empire’s densely populated, unsanitary cities. Despite the Plague of Justinian, regular “barbarian” invasions, a war with Persia, and the rise of Islam, the empire endured as a political entity. However, Greco-Roman civilization, a world of interconnected cities that had shared a common material culture for a millennium, did not. Politics, war, and religious strife drove the transformation of Eastern Rome, but they do not tell the whole story. Braiding the political history of the empire together with its urban, material, environmental, and epidemiological history, New Rome offers the most comprehensive explanation to date of the Eastern Empire’s transformation into Byzantium.

Author : Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317110552

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John Moschos' Spiritual Meadow by Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen Pdf

John Moschos' Spiritual Meadow is one of the most important sources for late sixth-early seventh century Palestinian, Syrian and Egyptian monasticism. This undisputedly invaluable collection of beneficial tales provides contemporary society with a fuller picture of an imperfect social history of this period: it is a rich source for understanding not only the piety of the monk but also the poor farmer. Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen fills a lacuna in classical monastic secondary literature by highlighting Moschos' unique contribution to the way in which a fertile Christian theology informed the ethics of not only those serving at the altar but also those being served. Introducing appropriate historical and theological background to the tales, Llewellyn Ihssen demonstrates how Moschos' tales addresses issues of the autonomy of individual ascetics and lay persons in relationship with authority figures. Economic practices, health care, death and burials of lay persons and ascetics are examined for the theology and history that they obscure and reveal. Whilst teaching us about the complicated relationships between personal agency and divine intercession, Moschos’ tales can also be seen to reveal liminal boundaries we know existed between the secular and the religious.

Author : Lesley A. Beaumont,Matthew Dillon,Nicola Harrington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 839 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134870752

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Children in Antiquity by Lesley A. Beaumont,Matthew Dillon,Nicola Harrington Pdf

This collection employs a multi-disciplinary approach treating ancient childhood in a holistic manner according to diachronic, regional and thematic perspectives. This multi-disciplinary approach encompasses classical studies, Egyptology, ancient history and the broad spectrum of archaeology, including iconography and bioarchaeology. With a chronological range of the Bronze Age to Byzantium and regional coverage of Egypt, Greece, and Italy this is the largest survey of childhood yet undertaken for the ancient world. Within this chronological and regional framework both the social construction of childhood and the child’s life experience are explored through the key topics of the definition of childhood, daily life, religion and ritual, death, and the information provided by bioarchaeology. No other volume to date provides such a comprehensive, systematic and cross-cultural study of childhood in the ancient Mediterranean world. In particular, its focus on the identification of society-specific definitions of childhood and the incorporation of the bioarchaeological perspective makes this work a unique and innovative study. Children in Antiquity provides an invaluable and unrivalled resource for anyone working on all aspects of the lives and deaths of children in the ancient Mediterranean world.

Author : Gary Westfahl
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 2543 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216071990

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A Day in a Working Life [3 volumes] by Gary Westfahl Pdf

Ideal for high school and college students studying history through the everyday lives of men and women, this book offers intriguing information about the jobs that people have held, from ancient times to the 21st century. This unique book provides detailed studies of more than 300 occupations as they were practiced in 21 historical time periods, ranging from prehistory to the present day. Each profession is examined in a compelling essay that is specifically written to inform readers about career choices in different times and cultures, and is accompanied by a bibliography of additional sources of information, sidebars that relate historical issues to present-day concerns, as well as related historical documents. Readers of this work will learn what each profession entailed or entails on a daily basis, how one gained entry to the vocation, training methods, and typical compensation levels for the job. The book provides sufficient specific detail to convey a comprehensive understanding of the experiences, benefits, and downsides of a given profession. Selected accompanying documents further bring history to life by offering honest testimonies from people who actually worked in these occupations or interacted with those in that field.

Author : John Haldon,Hugh Elton,James Newhard,Jim Newhard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108471152

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Archaeology and Urban Settlement in Late Roman and Byzantine Anatolia by John Haldon,Hugh Elton,James Newhard,Jim Newhard Pdf

Analyses the evolution of a provincial Byzantine urban settlement based on the results of an interdisciplinary collaborative project.

Author : Dimiter Angelov
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781108480710

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The Byzantine Hellene by Dimiter Angelov Pdf

Tells the story of Theodore Laskaris, a thirteenth-century Byzantine emperor, imaginative philosopher, and ideologue of Hellenism.

Author : Mati Meyer,Charis Messis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781040043455

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The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in Byzantium by Mati Meyer,Charis Messis Pdf

This Handbook is the first to consider the interrelated subjects of gender and sexuality in the Eastern Roman Empire from an interdisciplinary perspective. Drawing on both modern theories and Byzantine perceptions, and considering multiple periods and religions (Eastern Orthodox, Islamic, and Jewish), it provides evidentiary textual and visual material support for an analysis of the two linked themes. Broadly, the essays demonstrate that gender and sexual constructs in Byzantium were porous. As a result, they expand our knowledge of not only how sex and gender were conceived and performed but also how ideas and practices shaped Byzantine life. The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in Byzantium will be an indispensable guide for students and scholars of late antique and Byzantine religion, history, culture, and art, who will find it a useful critical survey of current scholarship and one that shines new light in their areas of research. The focus on issues of gender and sexuality may also be of interest to individuals concerned with Eastern Mediterranean culture, as well as to the broader public. Chapter 21 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.