Papers by Ioannis Telelis
Byzantion 77: 432-462, 2007
This paper focuses on weather and climate as factors affecting certain facets of human activity d... more This paper focuses on weather and climate as factors affecting certain facets of human activity during the Byzantine period. Various aspects of impact that weather phenomena and climatic conditions could have upon travel, travellers and communications by land, either in short-term or in long-term context, during the Byzantine period are discussed: Were there any long-term impacts of climatic change upon communications overland? Which weather phenomena are described by the Byzantine authors as affecting people on move? What was the impact of weather upon land transport and communications? Which was the concept of weather that people on the move had and how can we combine weather reports with traveller's emotional and factual reality while experiencing meteorologically induced dangers during overland travel?
Byzantinische Zeitschrift 98(2), 2005
I. Telelis, “Anastasios K. Sinakos, Άνθρωπος και περιβάλλον στην πρωτοβυζαντινή εποχή (4ος-6ος αι... more I. Telelis, “Anastasios K. Sinakos, Άνθρωπος και περιβάλλον στην πρωτοβυζαντινή εποχή (4ος-6ος αι.). Thessalonike, University Studio Press (Βιβλιοθήκη Ιστορικών Μελετών 3) 2003. 193 S. Mit 2 Abb. ISBN 960-12-1178-0”. Book review in: Byzantinische Zeitschrift 98(2) (2005) pp. 143-148
Historical-climatological Information from the Time of the Byzantine Empire (4th-15th Centuries A... more Historical-climatological Information from the Time of the Byzantine Empire (4th-15th Centuries AD) [in Chinese]
Classical Review, 2023
Byzantine Textual Sources for Climatic and Environmental Developments [in Chinese]
Environment & History 4 (1998) 53-74, 1998
Martinus Crusius (1526-1607), one of the 16th century's German humanists, kept personal notes in ... more Martinus Crusius (1526-1607), one of the 16th century's German humanists, kept personal notes in diary form for the period 1596-1605. This academic professor has provided us in his Diarium (Diary) with a systematic collection of daily records of various personal, historic and literary notes. But he was also interested in recording the day-today weather, extreme weather events and other environmental phenomena, such as phenological events, vine-harvest dates etc. Over 3,000 descriptive daily records of weather and other environmental phenomena have been derived from the Diarium. Assessment of the data is
Δωδώνη (Eπιστημονική Eπετηρίς του Πανεπιστημίου Iωαννίνων) 19 (1989) σσ.105-127, 1989
BYZANTINA ΣΥΜΜΕΙΚΤΑ 32, 2022
Β.10 (2022) Byzantine Textual Sources for Climatic and Environmental Developments
in: Heiduk M., Herbers K. & Lehner H.-C., Prognostication in the Medieval World. A Handbook. v. I, De Gruyter Reference, De Gruyter, 2020
Byzantina Symmeikta, 2017
Book Review:: EMMANUEL PASCHOS - CHRISTOS SIMELIDIS, Introduction to Astronomy by Theodore Metoc... more Book Review:: EMMANUEL PASCHOS - CHRISTOS SIMELIDIS, Introduction to Astronomy by Theodore Metochites (Stoicheiosis Astronomike 1.5-30), Singapore - Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific 2017
in: A Companion to Byzantine Science, (ed.) St. Lazaris, Brill, Leiden / Boston, 2019, 2019
I. Telelis, E. Chrysos, «The Byzantine Sources as Documentary Evidence for the Reconstruction of ... more I. Telelis, E. Chrysos, «The Byzantine Sources as Documentary Evidence for the Reconstruction of Historical Climate»,
In: B. Frenzel (ed.), European climate reconstructed from documentary data: Methods and results, [European Palaeoclimate and Man No 2], pp. 17-31, Stuttgart-Jena-New York 1992.
One of the most astonishing meteorological phenomena for the area of the Black Sea, Bosphorus and... more One of the most astonishing meteorological phenomena for the area of the Black Sea, Bosphorus and Constantinople occurred in the A.D. 763/4: The northern shores of the Black Sea froze and ice drifts moved towards the South, crossed Bosphorus and dashed against the city-walls of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, causing serious damage. Meanwhile the surface of the sea between the European and the Asiatic coast of Bosphorus froze and converted to a passable dry land. In March an exceptional period of drought allegedly followed causing the drying up of springs and rivers. This climatological phenomenon is documented by two important chronographers, who pretend to be eyewitnesses and it is described by a number of posterior Byzantine sources. The same winter is further described as very severe by about thirty Latin Annals and Chronicles. In this paper we try to demonstrate the historical and philological efforts needed to verify the trustworthiness of the sources and the reliability of their evidence.
At the beginning of the Medieval Climate Anomaly, in the ninth and tenth century, the medieval ea... more At the beginning of the Medieval Climate Anomaly, in the ninth and tenth century, the medieval eastern Roman empire, more usually known as Byzantium, was recovering from its early medieval crisis and experiencing favourable climatic conditions for the agricultural and demographic growth. Although in the Balkans and Anatolia such favourable climate conditions were prevalent during the eleventh century, parts of the imperial territories were facing significant challenges as a result of external political/military pressure. The apogee of medieval Byzantine socioeconomic development, around AD 1150, coincides with a period of adverse climatic conditions for its economy, so it becomes obvious that the winter dryness and high climate variability at this time did not hinder Byzantine society and economy from achieving that level of expansion. Soon after this peak, towards the end of the twelfth century, the populations of the Byzantine world were experiencing unusual climatic conditions with marked dryness and cooler phases. The weakened Byzantine socio-political system must have contributed to the events leading to the fall of Constantinople in AD 1204 and the sack of the city. The final collapse of the Byzantine political control over western Anatolia took place half century later, thus contemporaneous with the strong cooling effect after a tropical volcanic eruption in AD 1257. We suggest that, regardless of a range of other influential factors, climate change was also an important contributing factor to the socioeconomic changes that took place in Byzantium during the Medieval Climate Anomaly. Crucially, therefore, while the relatively sophisticated and complex Byzantine society was certainly influenced by climatic conditions, and while it nevertheless displayed a significant degree of resilience, external pressures as well as tensions within the Byzantine society more broadly contributed to an increasing vulnerability in respect of climate impacts. Our interdisciplinary analysis is based on all available sources of information on the climate and society of Byzantium, that is textual (documentary), archaeological, environmental, climate and climate model-based evidence about the nature and extent of climate variability in the eastern Mediterranean. The key challenge was, therefore, to assess the relative influence to be ascribed to climate variability and change on the one hand, and on the other to the anthropogenic factors in the evolution of Byzantine state and society (such as invasions, changes in international or regional market demand and patterns of production and consumption, etc.). The focus of this interdisciplinary
Drafts by Ioannis Telelis
NOTA BENE: This document is intended to accompany the following volume contribution, because erro... more NOTA BENE: This document is intended to accompany the following volume contribution, because errors occurred during the typesetting process, which cause difficulties in understanding some aspects of my argumentation, and I had not been given the chance to review and correct before publication:
DOI10.1484/M.SBHC-EB.5.114444
Ioannis Telelis, "Tεχνικὸς διδάσκαλος: Georgios Pachymeres as Paraphrast of Aristotelian Meteorology", in: Andrea Massimo Cuomo, Erich Trapp (eds.), Toward a Historical Sociolinguistic Poetics of Medieval GreekEdition: Byzantioς (Studies in Byzantine History and Civilization (SBHC 12), Brepols Turnhout 2017, pp. 119-142.
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The reader is kindly requested to take into consideration the pages of the present CORRIGENDA document and replace pp. 119, 127, 129, and p. 131 of the printed and/or electronic version of my contribution.
Conference Presentations by Ioannis Telelis
Proceedings of SEP Pollution Meeting in Padova, Italy, 29.3.-2.4.1992, 1992
I.Telelis, «The great climatic risks of the past: The drought described by Byzantine sources (4t... more I.Telelis, «The great climatic risks of the past: The drought described by Byzantine sources (4th-6th cent. A.D.)», in: Proceedings of SEP Pollution Meeting in Padova, Italy, 29.3.-2.4.1992, σσ. 289-301
New history. The Dialogue between Tradition and History, 2024
Telelis Ioannis, 2014
Μιχαηλ σ. Κορδωσησ: Η «Ρώμη» του Ινδικού Καυκάσου στις ασιατικές πηγές και η σχέση της με την Ανα... more Μιχαηλ σ. Κορδωσησ: Η «Ρώμη» του Ινδικού Καυκάσου στις ασιατικές πηγές και η σχέση της με την Ανατολική Ρωμαϊκή αυτοκρατορία (Βυζάντιο). .. ελεωνορα ΚουνΤουρα ΓαλαΚη: Ο Μέγας Κωνσταντίνος στο αγιολογικό έργο του Κωνσταντίνου Ακροπολίτη: Ιδεολογικές επαναλήψεις και νέες προσεγγίσεις ευαΓΓελοσ Κ. ΚυριαΚησ: Η βυζαντινή Realpolitik απέναντι στους Νοτιοσλάβους και τους Βουλγάρους (αρχές 7ου-αρχές 11ου αι .
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Papers by Ioannis Telelis
In: B. Frenzel (ed.), European climate reconstructed from documentary data: Methods and results, [European Palaeoclimate and Man No 2], pp. 17-31, Stuttgart-Jena-New York 1992.
Drafts by Ioannis Telelis
DOI10.1484/M.SBHC-EB.5.114444
Ioannis Telelis, "Tεχνικὸς διδάσκαλος: Georgios Pachymeres as Paraphrast of Aristotelian Meteorology", in: Andrea Massimo Cuomo, Erich Trapp (eds.), Toward a Historical Sociolinguistic Poetics of Medieval GreekEdition: Byzantioς (Studies in Byzantine History and Civilization (SBHC 12), Brepols Turnhout 2017, pp. 119-142.
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The reader is kindly requested to take into consideration the pages of the present CORRIGENDA document and replace pp. 119, 127, 129, and p. 131 of the printed and/or electronic version of my contribution.
Conference Presentations by Ioannis Telelis
In: B. Frenzel (ed.), European climate reconstructed from documentary data: Methods and results, [European Palaeoclimate and Man No 2], pp. 17-31, Stuttgart-Jena-New York 1992.
DOI10.1484/M.SBHC-EB.5.114444
Ioannis Telelis, "Tεχνικὸς διδάσκαλος: Georgios Pachymeres as Paraphrast of Aristotelian Meteorology", in: Andrea Massimo Cuomo, Erich Trapp (eds.), Toward a Historical Sociolinguistic Poetics of Medieval GreekEdition: Byzantioς (Studies in Byzantine History and Civilization (SBHC 12), Brepols Turnhout 2017, pp. 119-142.
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The reader is kindly requested to take into consideration the pages of the present CORRIGENDA document and replace pp. 119, 127, 129, and p. 131 of the printed and/or electronic version of my contribution.