Recent decades have seen the rapid expansion of scholarship that identifies societal
responses to past climatic fluctuations. This fast-changing scholarship, which was recently …

This paper examines the evidence for climatic changes in the Eastern Mediterranean for the
period 200–800 AD and offers hypotheses on the role of climatic fluctuations in the societal …

Climatic changes during the first half of the Common Era have been suggested to play a role
in societal reorganizations in Europe 1, 2 and Asia 3, 4. In particular, the sixth century …

Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human
history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the …

Growing scientific evidence from modern climate science is loaded with implications for the
environmental history of the Roman Empire and its successor societies. The written and …

In just over a hundred years--from the death of Muhammad in 632 to the beginning of the
Abbasid Caliphate in 750--the followers of the Prophet swept across the whole of the Middle …

This cutting-edge synthesis of the archaeology of Nubia and Sudan from prehistory to the
nineteenth century AD is the first major work on this area for over three decades. Drawing on …

The popular notion of social collapse consequent on natural catastrophe is here elegantly
disentangled in a study of the dark summer of AD 536. Leaving aside the question of its …

The eastern Roman Empire was the largest state in western Eurasia in the sixth century.
Only a century later, it was a fraction of its former size. Surrounded by enemies, ravaged by …

Focuses on the Aksumite state of the first millennium AD in northern Ethiopia and southern
Eritrea, its development, florescence and eventual transformation into the so-called …