Farming, Famine and Plague The Impact of Climate in Late Medieval England /

• Main Author: Pribyl, Kathleen (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Environmental management.; Climate change.; Social history.; Agriculture.; Ecosystems.; Life Sciences.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management.; Social History.

This book is situated at the cross-roads of environmental, agricultural and economic history and climate science. It investigates the climatic background for the two most significant risk factors for life in the crisis-prone England of the Later Middle Ages: subsistence crisis and plague. Based on d...