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1 online resource (257 pages) |
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Routledge Environmental Humanities Ser |
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Routledge Environmental Humanities Ser
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Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Introduction; PART 1 Northern and Western Europe; 1 Famines, mortality, livestock deaths and scholarship: environmental stress in Iceland ca. 1500-1700; 2 Winter severity in medieval Sweden: the documentary evidence; 3 The grain trade, economic distress and social disorder at a time of environmental stress in East Anglia, 1400-ca. 1440 |
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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 ScheldtPART 2 Central Europe; 5 From the alpine mountain height to the Swiss Lake District: climate and society in the city and Republic of Bern from the 14th to the 16th centuries; 6 Apocalyptic riders in the borderlands: dealing with locust invasion, diseases and war in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Eastern and Southern Austria |
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7 A dynamic interplay of weather, biological factors and socio-economic interactions: late 15th-century-early 16th-century crises in Hungary8 The extreme year of 1540 in terms of climate variation from the perspective of historical sources derived from the Polish and Baltic territories; PART 3 Southern Europe and beyond; 9 Migration patterns from the Dalmatian hinterland during and after the great hunger of 1453-1454 as a consequence of environmental and political crisis |
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10 The "Danse Macabre" among climatic variability, famines and epidemics in Northern Italy during the 15th and 16th centuries: an overview through documentary sources11 'Toute chose se desnature': environmental changes of the 14th century in the perspective of contemporary witnesses (c. 1330-1400); 12 Chronology and impact of a global moment in the 13th century: the Samalas eruption revisited; Index |
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Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Pribyl, Kathleen
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| ISBN |
9780429956843 |
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0429956843 |
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9780429956836 |
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0429956835 |
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