What is it about?
Seas are crucial to our planet's sustainability. Likewise, the Aegean Sea was a key element towards the longevity of the Byzantine empire and the social agency of the Byzantines. Its millenial cultural luggage and maritime traditions, as well as the connectedness, it offered, with foreign lands and peoples, deeply affected the Byzantine culture. The ways in which the Aegean maritime and insular spaces were performed by the Byzantines are here analysed and contextualized from cultural, geographical and environmental perspectives.
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Why is it important?
The interdisciplinary approach, lying at the junction of Byzantine and Spatial studies, is well-timed in respect to academic developments and it is relevant to contemporary political discussions on environmental change.
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This page is a summary of: Sea of Agency: Islands and Coasts of the Byzantine Aegean in Environmental Perspective, February 2024, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004689350_015.
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