Description du projet
Un regard plus attentif sur le changement climatique au cours du premier millénaire
Afin de comprendre l’avenir, il importe d’apprenne à connaître le passé. Cet adage vaut pour le changement climatique, la crise majeure à laquelle notre époque est confrontée. Le projet SSE1K, financé par le CER, brossera un tableau global des connaissances, de la résilience et du développement durable relatifs à notre passé, et modifiera la manière dont les chercheurs appréhendent les relations entre les humains d’hier et les fluctuations environnementales et climatiques. Plus particulièrement, le projet se penchera sur les changements environnementaux et climatiques qui ont été identifiés comme étant à l’origine des processus et événements sociétaux et politiques qui se sont produits dans le bassin méditerranéen au cours du premier millénaire de notre ère. C’était une période marquée par des changements et des bouleversements démographiques notables. SSE1K étudiera les activités humaines et les changements environnementaux à l’œuvre à cette période et expliquera la manière dont ils ont été vécus et perçus.
Objectif
In the Mediterranean in the first millennium CE, environmental and climatic changes have been identified as causes for significant short- and long-term societal and political processes and events, such as epidemics and the rise and fall of empires. However, the effects of environmental or climatic variation on humans are substantially more complex than a narrative of causation of major events, since culturally specific perceptions and interpretations of environmental or climatic variation can have significant social, religious or political implications.
SSE1K builds on state-of-the-art research but goes beyond it to ask novel, important questions about relationships between past societies and environmental / climatic fluctuation. The project will pioneer an approach which is both multi- and interdisciplinary, centring on these questions: How did humans experience and perceive environmental and climatic variation across the Mediterranean in the first millennium CE, and how did they respond both intellectually and socially to these changing conditions? SSE1K addresses issues which have been raised as significant challenges for collaborative study of climate change but have yet to be fully addressed: it will investigate how the circulation of knowledge and adaptability intersect with sustainability and resilience in pre-modern societies, and how human perceptions and ways of thinking shaped societal, political or religious responses to environmental / climatic change.
The project will integrate textual, archaeological and environmental evidence to investigate a large geographical area (the Mediterranean) at a scale which balances human lived experience and climate trends (the first millennium CE) over macro- and micro-levels. This integration is crucial in producing a holistic picture of past knowledge, resilience and sustainability, and will change the ways that scholars understand the relationships between past humans and environmental / climatic fluctuation.
Champ scientifique
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Régime de financement
HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC GrantsInstitution d’accueil
30123 Venezia
Italie