The Dance of Death in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe : Environmental Stress, Mortality and Social Response /: Environmental Stress, Mortality and Social Response. (2019)
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- Book
- Title:
- The Dance of Death in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe : Environmental Stress, Mortality and Social Response /: Environmental Stress, Mortality and Social Response. (2019)
- Main Title:
- The Dance of Death in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe : Environmental Stress, Mortality and Social Response
- Further Information:
- Note: Andrea Kiss, Kathleen Pribyl.
- Editors:
- Kiss, Andrea
Pribyl, Kathleen - Contents:
- Introduction PART 1: NORTHERN AND WESTERN EUROPE 1. Famines, mortality, livestock deaths and scholarship: environmental stress in Iceland ca. 1500-1700 Astrid E.J. Ogilvie 2. Winter severity in medieval Sweden: the documentary evidence Dag Retsö and Johan Söderberg 3. The Grain trade, economic distress and social disorder at a time of environmental stress in East Anglia, 1400-ca. 1440 Kathleen Pribyl 4. War, climatic stress and environmental degradation during the 15th and 16th centuries: the case of the north Flemish coastal landscape in the estuary of the Western Scheldt Adriaan M.J. de Kraker PART 2: CENTRAL EUROPE 5. From the alpine mountain height to the Swiss Lake District: climate and society in the city and Republic of Berne from the 14th to the 16th centuries Chantal Camenisch 6. Apocalyptic riders in the borderlands: dealing with locust invasion, diseases and war in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Eastern and Southern Austria Christian Rohr 7. A dynamic interplay of weather, biological factors and socio-economic interactions: late 15th-century-early 16th-century crises in Hungary Andrea Kiss 8. The extreme year of 1540 in terms of climate variation from the perspective of historical sources derived from the Polish and Baltic territories Wiesław Nowosad and Piotr Oliński PART 3. SOUTHERN EUROPE AND BEYOND 9. Migration patterns from Dalmatian hinterland during and after the great hunger of 1453-1454 as consequence of environmental and political crisis Zrinka NikolićIntroduction PART 1: NORTHERN AND WESTERN EUROPE 1. Famines, mortality, livestock deaths and scholarship: environmental stress in Iceland ca. 1500-1700 Astrid E.J. Ogilvie 2. Winter severity in medieval Sweden: the documentary evidence Dag Retsö and Johan Söderberg 3. The Grain trade, economic distress and social disorder at a time of environmental stress in East Anglia, 1400-ca. 1440 Kathleen Pribyl 4. War, climatic stress and environmental degradation during the 15th and 16th centuries: the case of the north Flemish coastal landscape in the estuary of the Western Scheldt Adriaan M.J. de Kraker PART 2: CENTRAL EUROPE 5. From the alpine mountain height to the Swiss Lake District: climate and society in the city and Republic of Berne from the 14th to the 16th centuries Chantal Camenisch 6. Apocalyptic riders in the borderlands: dealing with locust invasion, diseases and war in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Eastern and Southern Austria Christian Rohr 7. A dynamic interplay of weather, biological factors and socio-economic interactions: late 15th-century-early 16th-century crises in Hungary Andrea Kiss 8. The extreme year of 1540 in terms of climate variation from the perspective of historical sources derived from the Polish and Baltic territories Wiesław Nowosad and Piotr Oliński PART 3. SOUTHERN EUROPE AND BEYOND 9. Migration patterns from Dalmatian hinterland during and after the great hunger of 1453-1454 as consequence of environmental and political crisis Zrinka Nikolić Jakus 10. The "Danse Macabre " among climatic variability, famines and epidemics in Northern Italy during the 15th and 16th centuries: an overview through documentary sources Silvia Enzi, Francesca Becherini and Mirca Sghedoni 11. ‘Toute chose se desnature’ : environmental changes of the 14th century in the perspective of contemporary witnesses (c. 1330-1400) Thomas Labbé 12. Chronology and impact of a global moment in the thirteenth century: the Samalas eruption revisited Martin Bauch … (more)
- Edition:
- 1st
- Publisher Details:
- Routledge
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (242 pages), (8 illustrations)
- Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9780429956836
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