How can we study the late ancient and Byzantine history from ecological perspectives? How might one grapple with the more-than-human in sources and media created by humans? Exploring the diverse ways in which pre-modern texts engaged with the broader natural world, this book presents scholarly ventures into the terrains of the past. From the ancient treatises on dreams to monastic tales from the Hexameron literature to the Byzantine romance, from the Exeter Book to a mysterious Byzantine icon, the chapters investigate a diverse range of literature and other sources, uncovering intricate ecosystems of relationships.
The team of leading international experts behind the volume focuses on encounters between human and more-than-human beings. They pay attention to the entanglement of multiple agencies that cut through texts and other meshes. With insights from such theoretical traditions as ecocriticism, new materialism and environmental humanities, they re-expose ancient media to the elements.
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Ecologizing Late Ancient and Byzantine Worlds
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Table of contents
- Cover page
- Halftitle page
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- CONTRIBUTORS
- SERIES EDITOR PREFACE
- PREFACE
- 1 Weathering: Ancient Worlds Exposed
- 2 Fieldwork: Following Saint Hilarion
- 3 Night: An Ancient Monastic Ecology of Darkness
- 4 Edges: Coasts, Riverbanks and Waterscapes in Late Ancient Texts
- 5 Dream: The Cultural Ecology of Dreaming in Artemidorusā Oneirocritica
- 6 Energies: Wind, Water and the Literary Ecosystem in a Twelfth-Century Byzantine Novel
- 7 Behold! The Equivocal Ecopoetics of Wonder in Late Ancient Homilies on Creation
- 8 Agency: A Core Concept in the Cultural History of HumanāAnimal Relations
- 9 Crocodiles: Frightening Reptiles and Monastic Imagination
- 10 Physiologizing: The Meaning of Species Un/Ravelled
- 11 Feast! Venantius Fortunatusā Poetic Feasts
- 12 Thicket: Trees and Belief in Britain after Rome
- 13 Medianature: Dirt, Stone, Water and Sky as Representational Fields
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
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