Climate and Political Climate: Environmental Disasters in the Medieval Levant

Raphael, Sarah Kate

ISBN 10: 9004216561 / ISBN 13: 9789004216563

Published by Brill Academic Pub, 2013

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illustrated edition. 211 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Climate and Political Climate: Environmental Disasters in the Medieval Levant
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004216561
• ISBN 13: 9789004216563
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.5 kilograms

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Sarah Kate Raphael, Ph. D. (2008), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Currently works as an archaeologists in Jerusalem. She has published articles on the medieval Levant and a book, Muslim Fortresses in the Levant Between Crusaders and Mongols (Routledge, 2010).