Climate and political climate : environmental disasters in the Medieval Levant / / by Sarah Kate Raphael.
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 an...
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's series in the history of the environment,
v. 3 Brill's Series in the History of the Environment 3. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (230 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Droughts and famines
- pt. 2. Earthquakes and the politics of mass destruction
- pt. 3. Small and destructive enemies
- pt. 4. Dearth, crisis and violence.