Bloomsbury Academic is delighted to announce a virtual event to celebrate the publication of Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity, which launches an exciting new series for the press: Ancient Environments.
Friday 14 May, 4 pm CEST, Zoom
Please register on Eventbrite for more information on how to attend: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ancient-environments-series-mountain-dialogues-from-antiquity-to-modernity-tickets-147133228447
Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity
Edited by Dawn Hollis and Jason König
Available in hardback and ebook editions from 6 May 2021
With chapters by Harriet Archer, Chloe Bray, Cian Duffy, Peter Hansen, Janice Hewlett Koelb, Dan Hooley, Alley Marie Jordan, Sean Ireton, Douglas Whalin and Gareth D. Williams
Throughout the longue dureé of Western culture, how have people represented mountains as landscapes of the imagination and as places of real experience? In what ways has human understanding of mountains changed – or stayed the same?
Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity opens up a new conversation between ancient and modern engagements with mountains. It highlights the ongoing relevance of ancient understandings of mountain environments to the postclassical and present-day world, while also suggesting ways in which modern approaches to landscape can generate new questions about premodern responses. It brings together experts from across many different disciplines and periods, focussing on topics ranging from classical Greek drama to Renaissance art, and from early modern natural philosophy to nineteenth-century travel writing. In the process the volume makes the case for collaborative, cross-period research as a route both for understanding human relations with the natural world in the past, and informing them in the present.
The Ancient Environments series explores the worlds of living and non-living things, examining how they have shaped, and been shaped by, ancient human societies and cultures. Ranging across the Mediterranean from 3500BCE to 750CE, and grounded in case studies and relevant evidence, its volumes use interdisciplinary theories and methods to investigate ancient ecological experiences and illuminate the development and reception of environmental concepts. The series provides a deeper understanding of how and why, over time and place, people have understood and lived in their environments. Through this approach, we can reflect on our responses to contemporary ecological challenges.
Series editors: Esther Eidinow, Katharina Lorenz, Anna Collar
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/ancient-environments/
Cover image from Wikimedia Commons.
