„Catastrophes in Context: Disaster and Response in the Roman and Early Byzantine World“, ur. Rubina Raja i Andrew Wilson
Catastrophes in Context: Disaster and Response in the Roman and Early Byzantine World explores how people in the ancient world lived through, reacted to, and recovered after major crises. From earthquakes and eruptions to shortages, plagues, and sudden environmental shifts, the book shows disasters not as stand-alone events but as moments that changed communities in lasting ways. Drawing on a wide mix of evidence such as archaeological remains, texts, landscapes, and scientific data, it brings together engaging case studies that highlight real human experiences of fear, loss, recovery, and resilience. The contributors offer new ways to understand how ancient societies coped with catastrophic events, what resources they relied on, and how they adapted to new realities. Comprehensive, engaging, and wide-ranging, this volume presents the ancient world through the lens of challenge and response, showing how crises shaped everyday life and long-term history.
Table of Contents
Front Matter (“Contents”, “List of Illustrations”, “List of Contributors”, “Preface”)
Catastrophe and Response in the Ancient World
War and Urbanism: The Boudican Revolt and the Reconstruction of Londinium
Re-evaluating the Impact of the Earthquake(s) of AD 62/63 in Roman Pompeii
The Catastrophic AD 79 Eruption of Vesuvius: Survivors and Post-eruption Intervention at the Local and Imperial Levels in Four Communities
The Economic Impact of the Antonine Plague
Catastrophes and Resilience: The Archaeology of Crises at Palmyra, 150–272
Cyrenaica and the Plague of Cyprian
Catastrophes and the Dynamic Landscape of Thonis-Heracleion
Catastrophic(?) Floods in the Roman North: Chronologies, Causes, and Contexts
Resilience in Late Fifth-Century Aphrodisias: An Archaeological Perspective from the Tetrapylon Street
The Environmental Context for the Outbreak of the Justinianic Plague in the Mediterranean
Contextualizing Late Antique Natural Disasters: The Elements and Effects of the Late Antique Little Ice Age and the Justinianic Plague
Back Matter (“Index”)
Errata to ‘The Environmental Context for the Outbreak of the Justinianic Plague in the Mediterranean’ (Brandon McDonald, Andrew Wilson, and Arietta Papaconstantinou)
Objavljeno: 2026.
ISBN: 9782503623641
313 str.
Brepols
Opširnije: https://www.brepolsonline.net/content/books/10.1484/M.STIA-EB.5.153607