The Medieval Climate Anomaly and Byzantium: A review of the evidence on climatic fluctuations, economic performance and societal change

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 136, Issue , 2016, Pages 229-252

  Xoplaki, Elena ^a   Fleitmann, Dominik ^b   Luterbacher, Juerg ^a   Wagner, Sebastian ^c   Haldon, John F ^d   Zorita, Eduardo ^c   Telelis, Ioannis ^e   Toreti, Andrea ^f   Izdebski, Adam ^g  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^f JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^g JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Byzantine empire; Climate impacts; Medieval Climate Anomaly; Society

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; VOLCANOES;

BYZANTINE EMPIRE; CLIMATE IMPACTS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE; INTERDISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS; MEDIEVAL CLIMATE ANOMALIES; PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION; SOCIETY; SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; PALEOTEMPERATURE; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VULNERABILITY;

ANATOLIA; BALKANS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST); TURKEY;

EID: 84959153901     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.10.004     Document Type: Article

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