Description: This book investigates how Late Antique and Byzantine literary texts and other media reflect the entangled, non-binary relation between human and non-human realms, culture and nature, providing unexplored historical insights into ancient ecological perceptions.
Brief description: Laura Borghetti is a Doctoral Candidate in Byzantine Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany.
Review Quotes:
"A commendable and valuable volume that furnishes an excellent array of studies and contributes to the worthwhile goal of ecologizing and expanding what ecologically-oriented studies can look like for the late antique and Byzantine worlds." --Bryn Mawr Classical Review
"More than just a study of Byzantine environmental ideology and history, these scholarly meditations are also a reckoning with the Anthropocene, our own era of global warming and mass extinction, offering glimpses into other ways of being in the world from which we could perhaps learn." --Adam J. Goldwyn, Professor of English, North Dakota State University, USA