The Crisis of the 14th Century.

The Crisis of the 14th Century. - 1 online resource (299) - Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven medièavistischer Forschung. Beihefte vol. 13 . - Mittelalter (Berlin, Germany). Beihefte ; Bd. 13. .

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Teleconnections, Correlations, Causalities between Nature and Society? An Introductory Comment on the "Crisis of the Fourteenth Century" -- Ventus vehemens et terribilis per totam Angliam: Responses and Reactions to a Short-term Crisis in the British Isles -- The Potential of Late Medieval and Early Modern Narrative Sources from the Area of Modern Switzerland for the Climate History of the Fourteenth Century -- Hic aues incipiunt cantare: Shifts in the Beginning of Seasons in Medieval Calendars of Rome and the Nordic Countries -- Climate and the Crises of the Early Fourteenth Century in Northeastern Europe -- Food Crisis in Fourteenth-Century Hungary: Indicators, Causes and Case Studies -- The Crisis of 1315-1322 in Bresse as Depicted in Manorial Rolls -- The Mongol Yuan Dynasty and the Climate, 1260-1360 -- Facing the Crisis in Medieval Florence: Climate Variability, Carestie, and Forms of Adaptation in the First Half of the Fourteenth Century -- The Little Ice Age and Byzantium within the Eastern Mediterranean, circa 1200-1350: An Essay on Old Debates and New Scenarios -- Plague and Desertion -- A Consequence of Anthropogenic Landscape Change? Archaeological Studies in Southern Germany -- Narratives of Environmental Events in the Winchester Pipe Rolls and English Historiography of the Early Fourteenth Century -- The Little Ice Age and the Hungarian Kingdom? Sources and Research Perspectives -- Thoughts on a Connected Fourteenth Century -- Index of Places -- Index of Names

Societal and environmental change not only coincide during the period 1250-1380, they interact: What has been long discussed as the 'Crisis of the 14th Century' is happening during a shifting climatic regime, from the Medieval Climate Anomaly to the onset of the Little Ice Age. The volume highlights this 'teleconnections' between environment and society with a set of interdisciplinary and regionally diverse contributions on Europe and beyond.


English.

3110657961 3110660784 9783110660784 9783110657968

10.1515/9783110660784. doi


Literary studies: classical, early & medieval.
Medieval history.
Fourteenth century.
Climatic changes--History--To 1500.
Teleconnections (Climatology)


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