Research Catalog

Title

Climate and political climate : environmental disasters in the Medieval Levant / by Sarah Kate Raphael.

Author

Raphael, Kate

Publication

Leiden : Brill, 2013.

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Description

xi, 211 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"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"--Page 4 of cover.

Series Statement

Brill's series in the history of the environment ; volume 3

Uniform Title

Brill's series in the history of the environment ; v. 3.

Subject

• Climatic changes > Middle East > History > To 1500
• Climatic changes > Social aspects > Middle East
• Climate and civilization > Middle East
• Nature > History. > Middle East
• Paleoclimatology > Middle East
• NATURE / Weather
• SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology
• Middle East > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pt. 1. Droughts and famines -- pt. 2. Earthquakes and the politics of mass destruction -- pt. 3. Small and destructive enemies -- pt. 4. Dearth, crisis and violence.

ISBN

• 9789004216563 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9789004244733 (e-bk)

LCCN

^^2012043423

OCLC

815835924

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library