Le climat et l’Antiquité Tardive: ses restitutions par les Modernes et sa perception par les Anciens

• Autores: Philippe Leveau
• Localización: Antiquité tardive: revue internationale d'histoire et d'archéologie, ISSN 1250-7334, Nº. 29, 2021 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Homme et « nature » dans l' Antiquité tardive), págs. 81-94
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • This article draws on proxy data that paleoclimatologists have used to reconstruct the climate in Late Antiquity. The cooling that characterized the Mediterranean and circum-Mediterranean regions at this time appears less pronounced than indicated by its classification as a Little Ice Age. Analysis of the perception that the Ancients had of the climate makes it possible to rule out the hypothesis of a direct relationship between the climate of this period and the crisis of the Roman Empire in the West. The term “Little Ice Age” and even more “Little Ice Age of Late Antiquity” in the environmental geosciences creates a regrettable confusion between climatic oscillations and a breakdown in the climatic system which has occurred frequently throughout the Earth’s history. Historians have been wrong to adopt this terminology and to assume that it defines a relationship in the past between the radiance of the sun, its activity and the history of a historical society. Interdisciplinarity should not result in the merging of disciplines. The approach taken here is multidisciplinary, which is better suited to the identification of a number of factors