TY - BOOK ID - 48155177 TI - Experiencing famine in fourteenth-century Britain. PY - 2019 SN - 250354780X 9782503547800 PB - Turnhout : Brepols, DB - UniCat KW - Famines KW - Famine KW - Food supply KW - Starvation KW - History KW - Great Britain KW - Social conditions KW - History of the United Kingdom and Ireland KW - anno 1300-1399 KW - 942.03 KW - 338 <09>
KW - 338.43 KW - 338.43 Landbouweconomie KW - Landbouweconomie KW - 338 <09>
Economische geschiedenis--OPEC KW - Economische geschiedenis--OPEC KW - 942.03 Geschiedenis van Engeland--(1154-1399) KW - Geschiedenis van Engeland--(1154-1399) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:48155177 AB - The book is concerned with arguably the single harshest subsistence crisis in Europe in the last two millennia: the Great Famine of 1315-17.00The agrarian crisis of 1315?17, known to history as the Great Famine, was one of the most devastating environmental crises to hit Europe within the last two millennia. The almost biblical flooding of 1314?16 brought about a series of crop failures, triggering a widespread agricultural crisis that unfolded into a catastrophic famine, which hit both human and animal populations with unprecedented force. The impact of this crisis, and the major long-term environmental consequences that followed, thus mark a truly watershed moment in European history.00This volume provides an in-depth study of the Great Famine as it affected the British Isles, but through this focused approach, it also offers new insights into the late-medieval North European economy and society at a time of political, socio-economic, and biological shocks and crises. Close analysis of contemporary archival sources reveals that the Great Famine was a highly complex phenomenon made by both Nature and man; and this is reflected in a highly interdisciplinary approach that studies climate, economy, demography, and health, as well as the way in which human behaviour further exacerbated the impact of famine. ER -