The New Environmental Fall of Rome
A Methodological Consideration
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 9296901 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Kristina Sessa (autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2019 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Fascículo | 1 |
| Páginas | 211-255 |
| Data de publicação | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Journal of late antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 1939-6716 • E-ISSN: 1942-1273 |
| Editora | Johns Hopkins University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jla.2019.0008 |
| OpenAlex | W2947108329 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 29 |
| Referências citadas | 50 |
A series of recent publications, both scholarly and popular, has identified the physical environment as a primary historical agent in the Roman Empire's development and decline as a major (and distinct) political, cultural, and economic entity. This essay presents a critical review of the professional scholarship that argues for Rome's putative "decline and fall" due to major environmental crises, namely climate change and the first global pandemic of the bubonic plague. Particular attention is given to the problems of historical agency and causation, environmental determinism, interdisciplinarity, and the role of discourse in studying the human experience of environmental change in Late Antiquity. It offers some preliminary suggestions for a "second phase" of scholarship, which could potentially correct current methodological problems and offer a path toward understanding the irreducibly complex relationship between human and non-human historical agents
Agency (philosophy · Archaeology · Causation · Determinism · Economic history · Empire · Environmental ethics · Environmental history · Environmentalism · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical and Architectural Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
Towards and beyond the ‘Fall’
Reading John of Ephesus via Procopius of Caesarea
Demonology and Plague-Discourse as Discursive Intersections in Procopius’s Construction of Justinian in Secret History
'For it is improper to be addicted to the tedium of affliction'
Science, Morality, and the Roman Economy
A Subaltern’s View of Early Byzantine Africa
Acque reflue e rischio ambientale
Kyle Harper, The Fate of Rome. Climate, Disease and the End of an Empire
Reconstructing the Nile
A Tangled Web
Le climat et l’Antiquité Tardive
Managing the Roman Empire for the Long Term
Becoming Europe
Human-environment dynamics in the ancient Mediterranean
The supply of metals in the later Roman Empire
Persistence of Roman economic structures reflected in the dietary habits of late antique Tuscany (central Italy, 3rd–7th centuries CE)
Palmyra
Collapse Studies in Archaeology from 2012 to 2023
Climate and the Ancient World
Climate in 14th-Century England
New perspectives on historical climatology
Past Answers to Present Concerns. The Relevance of the Premodern Past for 21st Century Policy Planners
Climate and society in European history
The History and Deep Time of Climate Crisis
The First Plague Pandemic in the Byzantine Empire – Toward a New Dynamic Consensus
Burial Archaeology and the First Plague Pandemic
Fates of Romes
Middle Republican Connectivities
Pandemics in the Ancient Mediterranean World
Dust clouds, climate change and coins
The Apocalypse in the Early Middle Ages
Yersinia pestis and the Plague of Justinian 541–543 AD
History meets palaeoscience
Realising consilience
Timing and climate forcing of volcanic eruptions for the past 2,500 years
Collapse, environment, and society
Cooling and societal change during the Late Antique Little Ice Age from 536 to around 660 AD
Years of European Climate Variability and Human Susceptibility
The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean world in the age of Philip II
The Ancient Mediterranean Environment between Science and History
The fall of Rome and the retreat of European multiculturalism
Society and Environment in the East Mediterranean ca 300–1800 CE. Problems of Resilience, Adaptation and Transformation. Introductory Essay
Detection of Yersinia pestis DNA in two early medieval skeletal finds from Aschheim (Upper Bavaria, 6th century A.D.)
Reassembling the Social
The Social Burden of Resilience
The Peasants of Languedoc
Approaches to the environmental history of Late Antiquity, part II
Tracking mass death during the fall of Rome’s empire (I)
Tracking mass death during the fall of Rome's empire (II)
Perceptions and Interpretations of Natural Disasters during the Transition from the East Roman to the Byzantine Empire
The ‘Justinianic Plague’
Holocene drought, deforestation and evergreen vegetation development in the central Mediterranean
Human-derived landscape changes on the northern Etruria coast (western Italy) between Roman times and the late Middle Ages
The icon of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome
The Justinianic plague
The Biblical Drama of Medieval Europe. Lynette R. Muir
The Floods of 589 and Climate Change at the Beginning of the Middle Ages
The Environmental Fall of the Roman Empire
Eternal Victory
Rethinking the later Roman landscape
Material Powers
Environmental determinism in Holocene research
Logics of interdisciplinarity
Climate and its changes
The Perception of the Environment
Montaillou
Climate Change during and after the Roman Empire
The Climate and Environment of Byzantine Anatolia
Twilight of the gods? The 'dust veil event' of AD 536 in critical perspective
Realizing Consilience in Studies of Pre-Instrumental Climate and Pre-Laboratory Disease
Shewing the difference betweene their conjuration, and our invocation on the name of God for rayne
History's Changing Climate
The disappearance of the ancient landscape and the climatic anomaly of the early Middle Ages
La Peste dans le Haut Moyen Age
Histoire et Climat
The Rise of Christianity
A Bicycle Made for Two? The Integration of Scientific Techniques into Archaeological Interpretation
| Obras citantes distintas | 29 |
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| Citações por ano | 4,83 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Velocidade de citação | current |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 25 |