Ronnie Ellenblum

The Collapse of the Eastern Mediterranean

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Produktbeschreibung

A provocative study of the devastating impact of climate change across the eastern Mediterranean in the tenth and eleventh centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 566g
• ISBN-13: 9781107023352
• ISBN-10: 1107023351
• Artikelnr.: 35578532

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.