{"id":55164,"date":"2026-09-01T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=55164"},"modified":"2026-09-01T10:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T08:45:14","slug":"catastrophes-in-context-disaster-and-response-in-the-roman-and-early-byzantine-world-ur-rubina-raja-i-andrew-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=55164","title":{"rendered":"\u201eCatastrophes in Context: Disaster and Response in the Roman and Early Byzantine World\u201c, ur. Rubina Raja i Andrew Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Catastrophes in Context: Disaster and Response in the Roman and Early Byzantine World <\/em>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Front Matter (\u201cContents\u201d, \u201cList of Illustrations\u201d, \u201cList of Contributors\u201d, \u201cPreface\u201d)<br>Catastrophe and Response in the Ancient World<br>War and Urbanism: The Boudican Revolt and the Reconstruction of Londinium<br>Re-evaluating the Impact of the Earthquake(s) of AD 62\/63 in Roman Pompeii<br>The Catastrophic AD 79 Eruption of Vesuvius: Survivors and Post-eruption Intervention at the Local and Imperial Levels in Four Communities<br>The Economic Impact of the Antonine Plague<br>Catastrophes and Resilience: The Archaeology of Crises at Palmyra, 150\u2013272<br>Cyrenaica and the Plague of Cyprian<br>Catastrophes and the Dynamic Landscape of Thonis-Heracleion<br>Catastrophic(?) Floods in the Roman North: Chronologies, Causes, and Contexts<br>Resilience in Late Fifth-Century Aphrodisias: An Archaeological Perspective from the Tetrapylon Street<br>The Environmental Context for the Outbreak of the Justinianic Plague in the Mediterranean<br>Contextualizing Late Antique Natural Disasters: The Elements and Effects of the Late Antique Little Ice Age and the Justinianic Plague<br>Back Matter (\u201cIndex\u201d)<br>Errata to \u2018The Environmental Context for the Outbreak of the Justinianic Plague in the Mediterranean\u2019 (Brandon McDonald, Andrew Wilson, and Arietta Papaconstantinou)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Objavljeno: 2026.<br>ISBN: 9782503623641<br>313 str.<br>Brepols<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Op\u0161irnije: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brepolsonline.net\/content\/books\/10.1484\/M.STIA-EB.5.153607\">https:\/\/www.brepolsonline.net\/content\/books\/10.1484\/M.STIA-EB.5.153607<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":55165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":"\u201eCatastrophes in Context\u201c istra\u017euje kako su se zajednice rimskoga i ranobizantskoga svijeta nosile s potresima, erupcijama, epidemijama, nesta\u0161icama i klimatskim promjenama te kako su takve katastrofe dugoro\u010dno oblikovale njihov \u017eivot."},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Catastrophes-in-Context.webp?fit=725%2C900&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55107,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=55107","url_meta":{"origin":55164,"position":0},"title":"Leonora Neville, \u201eSailing Away from Byzantium Toward East Roman History\u201c","author":"Filip \u0160imunjak","date":"28. kolovoza 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"Although the first thing one learns about the 'Byzantine Empire' is that it was really the eastern Roman empire, scholars have preferred to call it 'Byzantine' in a repudiation of the self-conception and emic vocabulary of the inhabitants of that polity. 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