Farming, Famine and Plague The Impact of Climate in Late Medieval England /
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...
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Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
Γλώσσα: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- 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.