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"The sun was darkened for seventeen days (AD 797)". An interdisciplinary exploration of celestial phenomena between Byzantium, Charlemagne, and a volcanic eruption
Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Ewald Kislinger
The blinding of the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VI in Constantinople in August 797 and his overthrow by his mother Eirene, who then until 802 ruled as first female emperor of the…
The Medieval Climate Anomaly, the Oort Minimum and Socio-Political Dynamics in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Byzantine Empire, 10th to 12th Century
Johannes Preiser-Kapeller
The study examines the palaeoclimatic background and the regional manifestations of the Medieval Climate Anomaly in the Eastern Mediterranean, with a focus on the Byzantine Empire,…
Global apocalypse at the turn of the first Millennium AD? Climate fluctuations, astronomic phenomena and socio-political turbulences in 10th and 11th century Byzantium and Japan in comparative perspective
Johannes Preiser-Kapeller
Around the turn of the first Millennium AD, both in Christian polities such as the Byzantine Empire as well as in Buddhist communities such as in Heian Japan, expectations of an en…
The Climate of the Khagan. Observations on palaeo-environmental Factors of the History of the Avars (6th-9th century AD)
Johannes Preiser-Kapeller
Based on palaeoenvironmental, historical and archaeological data, the paper proposes possible climatic impacts on the history of the Avar Khaganate, which comprised the Carpathian…