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Identities and Ideologies in the Medieval East Roman World
| Identities and Ideologies in the Medieval East Roman World |
| Autore | Stouraitis Yannis |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (433 pages) |
| Disciplina | 320.5094950902 |
| Collana | Edinburgh Byzantine Studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Identity (Psychology) - Byzantine Empire - History - To 1500
Ideology - Byzantine Empire - History - To 1500 Philosophy - Byzantine Empire |
| Soggetto genere / forma | History |
| ISBN |
9781474493659
1474493653 9781474493642 1474493645 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction The Ideology of Identities and the Identity of Ideologies -- Part I Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches -- 1 Is Byzantinism an Orientalism? Reflections on Byzantium’s Constructed Identities and Debated Ideologies -- 2 Ruling Elites and the Common People: Some Considerations on Their Diverging Identities and Ideologies -- 3 The Dēmosia, the Emperor and the Common Good: Byzantine Ideas on Taxation and Public Wealth, Eleventh–Twelfth Century -- 4 Beyond Religion: Homilies as Conveyors of Political Ideology in Middle Byzantium -- 5 Performing Byzantine Identity: Gender, Status and the Cult of the Virgin -- 6 ‘Middle-Class’ Ideology of Education and Language, and the ‘Bookish’ Identity of John Tzetzes -- 7 Byzantium from Below: Rural Identity in Byzantine Arabia and Palaestina, 500–630 -- 8 Community-Building and Collective Identity in Middle Byzantine Athens -- Part II Centre and Periphery -- 9 Provincial Rebellions as an Indicator of Byzantine ‘Identity’ (Tenth–Twelfth Centuries) -- 10 Provincial Separatism in the Late Twelfth Century: A Case of Power Relations or Disparate Identities? -- 11 Irrevocable Blood: Violence and Collective Identity Formation in the Late Twelfth Century -- 12 Adjustable Imperial Image-Projection and the Greco-Roman Repertoire: Their Reception among Outsiders and Longer-Stay Visitors -- 13 Two Paradoxes of Border Identity: Michael VIII Palaiologos and Constantine Doukas Nestongos in the Sultanate of Rūm -- 14 The Coriander Field: Ideologies and Identities in Post-Roman Ravenna -- 15 Cultural Policy and Political Ideology: How Imperial was the Norman Realm of Sicily? -- 16 Changes in Identity and Ideology in the Byzantine World in the Second Half of the Twelfth Century: The Case of Serbia -- Index |
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Modelling the Logistics of Mantzikert
| Modelling the Logistics of Mantzikert |
| Autore | Murgatroyd Philip |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford : , : Archaeopress, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (162 pages) |
| Disciplina | 956.101 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
GaffneyVincent
HaldonJohn |
| Soggetto topico |
Manzikert, Battle of, Turkey, 1071
Byzantine Empire |
| ISBN |
9781803278001
1803278005 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Figure 1: Byzantine Anatolia at the time of the Turkish raids. -- Figure 2: Estimates of the size of the Byzantine army at Mantzikert from Muslim sources. -- Figure 3: Locations mentioned in the Byzantine historical accounts of the campaign. -- Figure 4: Resource availability in Byzantine Anatolia (after Hendy 2008, 70). -- Figure 5: Different types of pack saddle (Furse 1882, 280). -- Figure 6: Number of military logistics publications in the timeline, divided by date range. -- Figure 7: The software used in the MWGrid system. -- Figure 8: The same point of a simulation rendered with both lower polygon (left) and higher polygon (right) models. -- Figure 9: A 2D representation of MWGrid agents in a typical camp layout. -- Figure 10: A 3D representation of MWGrid agents moving across the landscape. The two lines of yellow represent columns of infantry agents making their way to the night’s camp, at which a blob of blue and purple cavalry have already arrived. -- Figure 11: An example of A* in action. -- Figure 12: Grid Movement. -- Figure 13: PRM movement. -- Figure 14: Anatolia with the ABM terrain extent marked in red. -- Figure 15: Layout of Byzantine camp from the Treatise on Campaign Organisation and Tactics (after Dennis, 1985) (image by Nigel Dodds). -- Figure 16: Example of camp layout in the DM101 scenarios, with 101 agents in red, 10,001 agents in blue and 40,001 agents in grey. -- Figure 17: Arrival tick of the Column Leader in marches of differing distance over flat terrain. -- Figure 18: Arrival time of the last agent in marches of differing distance over flat terrain. -- Figure 19: DM102 arrival times for 100% infantry (blue) and 75% infantry (green). -- Figure 20: DM102 arrival times for 90% infantry (yellow) and 50% infantry (black). -- Figure 21: DM102 arrival times for all scenarios. -- Figure 22: DM103 10km arrival times. -- Figure 23: DM103 20km arrival times. -- Figure 24: DM103 30km arrival times. -- Figure 25: Order of march for two columns, marching southeast. Red sections travel via waypoint 1 in numerical order and yellow sections via waypoint 2. |
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| Oxford : , : Archaeopress, , 2024 | ||
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Perspectives on Public Policy in Societal-Environmental Crises : What the Future Needs from History
| Perspectives on Public Policy in Societal-Environmental Crises : What the Future Needs from History |
| Autore | Izdebski Adam |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, : Springer Nature, 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (340 pages) |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
HaldonJohn
FilipkowskiPiotr |
| Collana | Risk, Systems and Decisions |
| Soggetto topico |
Mathematics & science
Ecological science, the Biosphere History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
History
Climate Change sustainable development Social History Ecological change |
| ISBN | 3-030-94137-X |
| Classificazione | HIS000000SCI000000SCI020000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction: What Sort of Past Does Our Future Need? -- History and Public Policy in the Era of Planetary Crisis -- What Stories Should Historians Be Telling at the Dawn of the Anthropocene? -- The First Answer: The Anthropocene as a Challenge to Humankind -- The Second Answer: The Anthropocene as a Viewpoint -- The Third Answer: The Anthropocene as Opportunity for the Research Community -- The Fourth Answer: History as Social Critique -- References -- The Anthropocene Contract. What Kind of Historian-Reader Agreement Does Environmental Historiography Need? -- Introduction -- A Response by a Theory of History -- The Question of Readership -- Egalitarian Historiography -- Conclusion -- References -- History and Utopian Thinking in the Era of the Anthropocene -- Introduction -- History and Criticism in the Era of the Anthropocene -- History and the Future in the Era of the Anthropocene -- Conclusions -- References -- Potentials and Risks of Futurology: Lessons from Late Socialist Poland -- Planetary Crises, Historiography and the Futurology of the Past -- Future Research in Late Socialist Poland -- Epistemology: Meta-Prognostic Modelling of the Future -- Social Technology: Future Research as an Instrument of State Planning -- Sociological Imagination: Future Research as Contemporary Utopia -- Conclusion -- References -- Globalization as Adaptive Complexity: Learning from Failure -- Introduction -- Looking to History -- Defining Collapse -- Identifying the Causes of Collapse -- Systemic Mechanisms of Collapse -- Tipping Points -- Feedback Loops -- Contagions -- Cascades -- Synchronous Failures -- Cycles -- Resilience and Mitigation -- Conclusion -- References -- Disjunctures of Practice and the Problems of Collapse -- Introduction -- Historical Experiments: Primacy, Principle and Practice.
Theory as Tool: Complex Adaptive Systems -- Diversity, Flexibility and Durability: An Alternative Nomenclature with Alternative Implications -- Learning from Systems Under Stress: Antecedents and Anticipation -- What Relevance Can History Have if We Are Living in a No-Analog Age? -- What Deep Time Perspectives Can Offer to Contemporary Debates -- Possibilistic Reasoning, Counterfactuals and Scenario Modelling -- Policy Implications -- The Problems of Sustainability, Resilience, Transformation -- Conclusion -- References -- Climate Change -- Geoengineering and the Middle Ages: Lessons from Medieval Volcanic Eruptions for the Anthropocene -- Geoengineering and the Anthropocene -- Volcanic Cooling and Solar Radiation Management -- All Kinds of Uncertainties -- The Role of Medieval History: More Precision -- Dating Uncertainty and Historical Sources -- Clarifying the Conditions of a Possible Future: Let Frankenstein Sleep -- References -- A Perfect Tsunami? El Nino, War and Resilience on Aceh, Sumatra -- Introduction -- Monsoons and El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) -- Earthquakes and Tsunamis -- Natural Disasters and War -- 1873-1880: Scorched Earth and Population Displacement -- 1880-1884 War, Resilience, and Recovery -- The Concentrated Line -- Measuring Resilience at the Systemic Scale Through GIS -- Sub-Systemic Resilience and Collapse: A Village View in Lamara -- The Village Was Entirely Abandoned in 1891 -- Conclusion -- References -- Social Responses to Climate Change in a Politically Decentralized Context: A Case Study from East African History -- Introduction: Collapse, Resilience, and the Centralized State in Historical Climatology -- 500 BCE-900 CE: Resilience Through Interaction -- 900 to 1400-"collapse" and Transformation -- Conclusion -- References. Resilience at the Edge: Strategies of Small-Scale Societies for Long-Term Sustainable Living in Dryland Environments -- Introduction -- Basin Wetlands -- Linear Valleys -- Conclusions -- References -- Beyond Boom and Bust: Climate in the History of Medieval Steppe Empires (C. 550-1350 CE) -- Case Studies -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Lessons for Modern Environmental and Climate Policy from Iron Age South Central Africa -- Introduction -- Background -- An Introduction to Historical Linguistics -- Forgotten Strategies for Future Policy -- References -- Crisis and Recovery -- Systemic Risk and Resilience: The Bronze Age Collapse and Recovery -- Introduction -- Systemic Resilience and Risk in Societies -- Resilience -- Systemic Risk -- The Bronze Age -- System Interconnectivity: Economic, Political and Cultural -- Shocks and Interconnections -- Mapping the Systems Collapse -- Bronze Age Recovery -- Conclusions: Parallels to the Modern Globalised World System -- References -- Panarchy and the Adaptive Cycle: A Case Study from Mycenaean Greece -- Introduction -- Brief Overview of the Bronze Age Collapse -- Resilience/Adaptive Cycle/Panarchy -- The Aegean Region as an Example of Panarchic Collapse -- Discussion/Conclusions -- References -- Managing the Roman Empire for the Long Term: Risk Assessment and Management Policy in the Fifth to Seventh Centuries -- The Late Roman Empire: An Administrative Approach -- Landscape and Climatic Change in the Late Roman Empire: An Environmental Approach -- The Late Roman Empire in the East: A Systems Approach -- Conclusion -- References -- Success and Failure in the Norse North Atlantic: Origins, Pathway Divergence, Extinction and Survival -- Introduction -- The Archaeological Science-Policy Interface -- Problems of Collapse Discourse -- How Are Archaeological Data Useful Now? -- Getting Beyond Collapse?. Human Ecodynamics Perspectives in the North Atlantic and Beyond -- Qualitative Scenarios Storylines and Collaborative Conceptual Modelling -- Norse Greenland -- Lessons from the Past -- Scenarios and Counterfactuals -- Conclusion -- References -- Resilience of Coupled Socio-Ecological Systems: Historic Rice Fields of the U.S. South -- Defining Resilience -- Resilience on Lowcountry Wetlands and in Lowcountry Rice Fields -- Resilience, Climate Change, and the 21st Century Rice Field Infrastructure -- Conclusion -- References -- The Short- and Long-Term Effects of an Early Medieval Pandemic -- Introduction -- Setting the Scene: The Roman Empire and the Outbreak of Plague -- Short-Term Responses to the First Plague Outbreak in 542 C.E -- Public Reaction -- State Response in Constantinople -- Annual to Decadal-Scale Responses -- State Effects in the First Five Years: The 540s -- Effects on a Decadal Scale: Causality and Caution -- Conclusion -- References -- Migration and the Environment -- The Integration of Settlers into Existing Socio-Environmental Settings: Reclaiming the Greek Lands After the Late Medieval Crisis -- Introduction -- The Turkish Nomads in Thessaly -- The Albanians in the Peloponnese -- Conclusions -- Appendix -- References -- Eastward Migration in European History: The Interplay of Economic and Environmental Opportunities -- References -- The Environmental Dimension of Migration: The Case of Poland After World War II -- References -- Conclusions -- Concluding Remarks: Interdisciplinarity and Public Policy. |
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| Cham, : Springer Nature, 2022 | ||
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Le saint, le moine et le paysan : Mélanges d'histoire byzantine offerts à Michel Kaplan / / Olivier Delouis, Sophie Métivier, Paule Pagès
| Le saint, le moine et le paysan : Mélanges d'histoire byzantine offerts à Michel Kaplan / / Olivier Delouis, Sophie Métivier, Paule Pagès |
| Autore | Ahrweiler Hélène |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Paris, : Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (758[2] p.) |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
AnagnostakisIlias
AuzépyMarie-France BalardMichel CheynetJean-Claude CronnierEstelle DelierneuxNathalie DelouisOlivier DérocheVincent EfthymiadisStéphanos Estangüi GómezRaúl FlusinBernard GréloisJean-Pierre HaldonJohn Kitapçı BayrıBuket LesieurBénédicte MagdalinoPaul MalamutÉlisabeth Marjanović-DušanićSmilja MarkopoulosAthanasios MartinJean-Marie Martin-HisardBernadette MétivierSophie MorrissonCécile MouletBenjamin OdoricoPaolo PapaconstantinouArietta Pérez MartínInmaculada PrigentVivien RochetteRenaud SidérisGeorges SmyrlisKostis SodiniJean-Pierre StavrouMichel TalbotAlice-Mary UbiernaPablo ZuckermanConstantin PagèsPaule |
| Soggetto topico |
History
moine chrétien ordre monastique ordre religieux |
| Soggetto non controllato |
chrétien
ordre monastique moine ordre religieux |
| ISBN | 979-1-03-510109-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | fre |
| Altri titoli varianti | saint, le moine et le paysan |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910348258503321 |
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Ahrweiler Hélène
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| Paris, : Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2019 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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