ISBN:
9781138590366
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 241 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten
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24 cm
Series Statement:
Routledge environmental humanities
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als The dance of death in late Medieval and Renaissance Europe
DDC:
304.2094/0902
Keywords:
Human ecology History To 1500
;
Human ecoogy History 16th century
;
Climatic changes History To 1500
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Climatic changes Social aspects
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Death Social aspects
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Epidemics History
;
Famines History
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Europa
;
Politische Krise
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Umwelt
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Umweltkrise
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Totentanz
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Geschichte 1350-1650
Abstract:
Famines, livestock, deaths and scholarship : environmental stress in Iceland ca. 1500-1700 / Astrid E.J. Ogilvie -- Winter severity in medieval Sweden : the documentary evidence / Dag Retsö and Johan Söderberg -- The grain trade, economic distress and social disorder at a time of environmental stress in East Anglia, 1400-ca.1440 / Kathleen Pribyl -- War, climatic stress and environmental degradation during the 15th and 16thcenturies : the case of the north Flemish coastal landscape in the estuary of the Western Scheldt / Adriaan M.J. de Kraker -- 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 -- Apocalyptic riders in the borderlands : dealing with locust invasion, diseases and war in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Eastern and Southern Austria / Christian Rohr -- A dynamic interplay of weather, biological factors and socio-economic interactions : late 15th-century-early 16th-century crises in Hungary / Andrea Kiss -- 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 -- Migration patterns from Dalmatian hinterland during and after the great hunger of 1453-1454 as consequence of environmental and political crisis / Zrinka Nikolić Jakus -- 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 -- 'Toute chose se desnature' : environmental changes of the 14th century in the perspective of contemporary witnesses (c. 1330-1400) / Thomas Labbé -- Chronology and impact of a global moment in the thirteenth century : the Samalas eruption revisited / Martin Bauch.
Abstract:
"This volume investigates environmental and political crisis that occurred in Europe during the late Middle Ages and the early Modern Period, and considers their effects on people's lives. At this time, the fragile human existence was imagined as a 'Dance of Death', where anyone regardless of social status or age could perish unexpectedly. This book covers events ranging from cooling temperatures and the onset of the Little Ice Age, to the frequent occurrence of epidemic disease, the infestation of pests, food shortages and famines. Covering the mid-fourteenth to mid-seventeenth centuries, this collection of essays considers a range of countries between Iceland (to the north), Italy (to the south), France (to the west) and the westernmost parts of Russia (to the east). This wide-reaching volume considers how deeply climate variability and changes affected and changed society in the late medieval to early modern period and asks what factors, other than climate, interfered in the development of environmental stress and socio-economic crises. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Environmental and Climate History, Environmental Humanities, Medieval and Early Modern History and Historical Geography, as well as Climate Change and Environmental Sciences"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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