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...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. The Historical Climatology of late Medieval England
• Chapter 2. The Keeping of Agricultural Records in late Medieval England
• Chapter 3. The Medieval Grain Harvest
• Chapter 4. Farming in Norfolk Around 1800
• Chapter 5. A Reconstruction of Medieval April to July Temperatures for East Anglia
• Chapter 6. Temperature Extremes 1256-1431: Independent Evidence and Context
• Chapter 7. Harvest Length – An Indicator of late Summer Precipitation
• Chapter 8. Harvest Length and Precipitation Extremes 1256-1448: Independent Evidence and Context
• Chapter 9. Climate and the Grain Price, 1264-1431
• Chapter 10. Climate and the Plague, 1348-1500
• Chapter 11. The Dance of Death – A Synthesis.