Re-thinking the Green Revolution in the Medieval Western Mediterranean (6th - 16th centuries)

重新思考中世纪西地中海（6-16世纪）的绿色革命

• 批准号: EP/Y024338/1
• 负责人: Michelle Alexander
• 金额: $ 159.46万
• 依托单位: University of York
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY024338%2F1
• 关键词: Re; thinking; Green; Revolution; Medieval

As Mediterranean societies prepare for the impacts of climate change over the next few decades, a case study to inform their future resilience is associated with one of the defining events in world history: the emergence of Islam in the 7th century, the subsequent Arab (and later Berber) conquests of the southern and western Mediterranean, their associated population movements and the environmental adaptations that enabled these new societies to flourish. The introduction of new forms of agriculture that transformed the economies of the conquered regions has been previously framed as the "Green Revolution". Moving beyond the limited focus of earlier research, with its restricted spatial and chronological scope, this project will adopt an integrated ecological approach, encompassing plants, animals and soils, from production through to consumption, and compare the impact and legacy of environmental transformations associated with long-term societal change in the western Mediterranean (Iberia and Morocco), beyond the initial Arab/Berber conquests. Adopting a broader chronological span, from the century before the conquests through to the century after the dissolution of the last Islamic polity in Iberia, the transition from Islamic to Christian regimes in Iberia will be compared, for the first time, with the persistence of Islamic polities in northwest Africa, against the backdrop of climatic fluctuations. This will enable relationships between environmental transformations and sequences of political and demographic change to be effectively contextualised. The synergy between our groups will combine regional specialisms with a wealth of scientific expertise, enabling us to conduct the first long-term and inter-regional study of how conquest, migration and encounters with resident populations and landscapes drove environmental transformation in the western Mediterranean during this formative period in world history.

随着地中海社会为未来几十年气候变化的影响做好准备，一项案例研究为他们未来的适应能力提供了信息，这与世界历史上的一个决定性事件有关：伊斯兰教在世纪的出现，随后的阿拉伯（以及后来的柏柏尔人）征服地中海南部和西部，与此相关的人口流动和环境适应使这些新社会得以繁荣。新的农业形式的引入改变了被征服地区的经济，以前被称为“绿色革命”。该项目超越了以往研究的有限重点，其空间和时间范围有限，将采取综合生态方法，包括植物、动物和土壤，从生产到消费，并比较与西地中海（伊比利亚和摩洛哥）长期社会变革有关的环境变化的影响和遗产，超越最初的阿拉伯/柏柏尔征服。采用更广泛的时间跨度，从征服前的世纪到最后一个伊斯兰政体在伊比利亚解体后的世纪，伊比利亚从伊斯兰政体到基督教政体的过渡将首次与西北非洲伊斯兰政体的持久性进行比较，以气候波动为背景。这将使环境变化与政治和人口变化序列之间的关系能够有效地结合背景。我们各小组之间的协同作用将把联合收割机区域专长与丰富的科学专门知识结合起来，使我们能够进行第一次长期的区域间研究，探讨征服、移徙以及与常住人口和景观的接触如何在世界历史的这一形成时期推动西地中海的环境变革。