Contribution to Book
Climate and Courage
Routledge Handbook of Identity and the Environment in the Classical and Medieval Worlds
(2015)
Abstract
The Routledge Handbook of Identity and the Environment in the Classical and Medieval Worlds explores how environment was thought to shape ethnicity and identity, discussing developments in early natural philosophy and historical ethnographies. Defining ‘environment’ broadly to include not only physical but also cultural environments, natural and constructed, the volume considers the multifarious ways in which environment was understood to shape the culture and physical characteristics of peoples, as well as how the ancients manipulated their environments to achieve a desired identity. This diverse collection includes studies not only of the Greco-Roman world, but also ancient China and the European, Jewish and Arab inheritors and transmitters of classical thought.
Publication Date
2015
Editor
Rebecca Futo Kennedy and Molly Jones-Lewis
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN
9780415738057
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315686622
Citation Information
Georgia L. Irby. "Climate and Courage" 1stLondonRoutledge Handbook of Identity and the Environment in the Classical and Medieval Worlds (2015) p. 247 - 265 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/georgia-irby/8/