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Climate Impacts and Societal Resilience in the Mediterranean of the Last Millennium: the Case of Medieval Byzantium

Climate Impacts and Societal Resilience in the Mediterranean of the Last Millennium: the Case of Medieval Byzantium

Lecture by Elena Xoplaki

Given at the College de France on June 15, 2018

The period we’re talking about is covering the period after the early medieval crisis until the period that followed the fall of Constantinople to the Latins in the year 1204 and we were extremely happy to have this type of information as the Byzantines produced written and material evidence as detailed to permit the investigation of potential societal impacts on climate variability and that for a period of prosperity from the 9th to the 12th century.

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Click here to visit Elena Xoplaki’s Academia.edu page

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