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dc.date.accessioned | 2021-11-26T06:43:56Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2021-11-26T06:43:56Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2122/14918 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Integrating palaeoclimatological proxies and historical records, which is necessary to achieve a more complete understanding of climate impacts on past societies, is a challenging task, often leading to unsatisfactory and even contradictory conclusions. This has until recently been the case for Italy, the heart of the Roman Empire, during the transition between Antiquity and the Middle Ages. In this paper, we present new high-resolution speleothem data from the Apuan Alps (Central Italy). The data document a period of very wet conditions in the sixth c. AD, probably related to synoptic atmospheric conditions similar to a negative phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation. For this century, there also exist a significant number of historical records of extreme hydroclimatic events, previously discarded as anecdotal. We show that this varied evidence reflects the increased frequency of floods and extreme rainfall events in Central and Northern Italy at the time. Moreover, we also show that these unusual hydroclimatic conditions overlapped with the increased presence of "water miracles" in Italian hagiographical accounts and social imagination. The miracles, performed by local Church leaders, strengthened the already growing authority of holy bishops and monks in Italian society during the crucial centuries that followed the "Fall of the Roman Empire". Thus, the combination of natural and historical data allows us to show the degree to which the impact of climate variability on historical societies is determined not by the nature of the climatic phenomena per se, but by the culture and the structure of the society that experienced it. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | English | en_US |
dc.publisher.name | Springer | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Climatic change | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | /165 (2021) | en_US |
dc.rights | CC0 1.0 Universal | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ | * |
dc.subject | Precipitation | en_US |
dc.subject | Roman Empire | en_US |
dc.subject | miracles | en_US |
dc.subject | Social feedbacks | en_US |
dc.subject | Cultural change | en_US |
dc.title | Beyond one-way determinism: San Frediano's miracle and climate change in Central and Northern Italy in late antiquity | en_US |
dc.type | article | en |
dc.description.status | Published | en_US |
dc.type.QualityControl | Peer-reviewed | en_US |
dc.description.pagenumber | 25 | en_US |
dc.subject.INGV | climate change | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s10584-021-03043-x | en_US |
dc.description.obiettivoSpecifico | 5A. Ricerche polari e paleoclima | en_US |
dc.description.journalType | JCR Journal | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Zanchetta, Giovanni | - |
dc.contributor.author | Bini, Monica | - |
dc.contributor.author | Bloomfield, Kevin | - |
dc.contributor.author | Izdebski, Adam | - |
dc.contributor.author | Vivoli, Nicola | - |
dc.contributor.author | Regattieri, Eleonora | - |
dc.contributor.author | Isola, Ilaria | - |
dc.contributor.author | Drysdale, Russell | - |
dc.contributor.author | Bajo, Petra | - |
dc.contributor.author | Hellstrom, John C. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Wiśniewski, Robert | - |
dc.contributor.author | Fallick, Anthony | - |
dc.contributor.author | Natali, Stefano | - |
dc.contributor.author | Luppichini, Marco | - |
dc.contributor.department | Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Sezione Pisa, Pisa, Italia | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Department of History, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Sezione Pisa, Pisa, Italia | en_US |
item.openairetype | article | - |
item.cerifentitytype | Publications | - |
item.languageiso639-1 | en | - |
item.grantfulltext | open | - |
item.openairecristype | http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_18cf | - |
item.fulltext | With Fulltext | - |
crisitem.author.dept | Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Sezione Pisa, Pisa, Italia | - |
crisitem.author.dept | Università di Pisa | - |
crisitem.author.dept | Department of History, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA | - |
crisitem.author.dept | Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Sezione Pisa, Pisa, Italia | - |
crisitem.author.dept | School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010 Australia | - |
crisitem.author.dept | Nubila s.a.s., Research, Service and Instrumentation for Meteorology and Environment, Bologna, Italy | - |
crisitem.author.orcid | 0000-0002-7080-9599 | - |
crisitem.author.orcid | 0000-0003-1482-2630 | - |
crisitem.author.orcid | 0000-0002-3911-4676 | - |
crisitem.author.orcid | 0000-0001-7867-031X | - |
crisitem.author.orcid | 0000-0002-0395-8113 | - |
crisitem.author.orcid | 0000-0002-7649-6167 | - |
crisitem.author.parentorg | Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia | - |
crisitem.author.parentorg | Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia | - |
crisitem.department.parentorg | Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia | - |
crisitem.department.parentorg | Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia | - |
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