Farming, famine and plague : the impact of climate in late Medieval England /: the impact of climate in late Medieval England. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kathleen Pribyl.
• Other Names: Pribyl, Kathleen
• Contents: Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: The Historical Climatology of Late Medieval England; Chapter 2: The Keeping of Agricultural Records in Late Medieval England; 2.1 Late Medieval Agriculture and Manorial Accounts; 2.2 Norwich Cathedral Priory; 2.2.1 Norwich Cathedral Priory and Its Temporalities Until c.1300; 2.2.2 The Making of Manorial Accounts and Their Economic Context; 2.2.3 Archival History of Norwich Cathedral Priory; 2.3 Supplementary Series; Chapter 3: The Medieval Grain Harvest; 3.1 Climatological Significance; 3.2 Management and Accounting Practices. 3.3 Data Density and Security3.4 Potential Non-climatic Influences on the Harvest Date; 3.5 Dating the Harvest: Calendar, Work Management and Communication; 3.5.1 The Ecclesiastical Calendar; 3.5.2 The Working Week; 3.5.3 The Harvest Date on Selected Manors of Norwich Cathedral Priory; 3.5.4 Harvest Date and Calendar; Chapter 4: Farming in Norfolk Around 1800; 4.1 Langham Farm; 4.1.1 The Working Week; 4.1.2 The Break in the Langham Series; 4.2 Fritton Estate; 4.3 Snettisham; 4.4 Wymondham; 4.5 Medieval Versus Early Modern Grain Harvests. Chapter 5: A Reconstruction of Medieval April-July Temperatures for East Anglia5.1 Reconstruction Methodology; 5.2 Reconstructed Medieval April-July Mean Temperatures; 5.3 Comparison with Other Documentary Reconstructions; 5.4 Comparison with William Merle's Weather Diary 1337-1344; Chapter 6: Temperature Extremes 1256-1431: Independent Evidence and Context; 6.1 Temperature Extremes and Agricultural Production; 6.2 Warm Growing Seasons 1256-1431; 6.2.1 Weather Conditions in 1267; 6.2.2 Weather Conditions in 1297 and 1298; 6.2.3 Weather Conditions in 1304-1307; 6.2.4 Weather Conditions in 1318. 6.2.5 Weather Conditions in the Mid-1320s6.2.6 Weather Conditions in the Early 1330s; 6.2.7 Weather Conditions in 1354; 6.2.8 Weather Conditions in 1361; 6.2.9 Weather Conditions in 1365; 6.2.10 Weather Conditions in 1371; 6.2.11 Weather Conditions in 1385; 6.2.12 Weather Conditions in 1390; 6.2.13 Weather Conditions in 1400; 6.2.14 Weather Conditions in 1409; 6.2.15 Weather Conditions in the 1410s; 6.2.16 Weather Conditions in 1431; 6.3 Cold Growing Seasons 1256-1431; 6.3.1 Weather Conditions in 1275; 6.3.2 Weather Conditions in 1283; 6.3.3 Weather Conditions in 1294. 6.3.4 Weather Conditions in 1314-13236.3.5 Weather Conditions in 1330; 6.3.6 Weather Conditions in 1335; 6.3.7 Weather Conditions in 1348-1349; 6.3.8 Weather Conditions in 1364; 6.3.9 Weather Conditions in 1368-1370; 6.3.10 Weather Conditions in 1374; 6.3.11 Weather Conditions in 1421; 6.3.12 Weather Conditions in 1428; 6.4 Weather Conditions During the Agrarian Crisis 1314-1323; 6.5 Weather Conditions During the Great Pestilence 1348-1349 and the Agricultural Crisis 1348-1352; 6.6 Summary of Extremely Warm and Cold Growing Seasons; 6.7 Climate and Viticulture in Medieval England.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 632.10942; Life sciences; Crops and climate -- England; Famines -- England; Plague -- England; Agriculture -- England -- History; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- General; Agriculture; Crops and climate; Famines; Plague; Life Sciences; Agriculture; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management; Ecosystems; Social History; Science -- Global Warming & Climate Change; Science -- Environmental Science; Science -- Life Sciences -- Ecology; History -- Social History; The environment; Environmental management; Ecological science, the Biosphere; Social & cultural history; Agriculture; Endangered ecosystems; Social history; Agricultural science; England; Electronic books; History; Electronic book
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319559537; 3319559532
• Related ISBNs: 9783319559520; 3319559524
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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