Farming, Famine and Plague The Impact of Climate in Late Medieval En
This book is situated at the cross-roads of environmental, agricultural and economic history and climate science. It investigates the climatic background for the two most significant risk factors for life in the crisis-prone England of the Later Middle Ag
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Farming, Famine and Plague The Impact of Climate in Late Medieval England
Farming, Famine and Plague
Kathleen Pribyl
Farming, Famine and Plague The Impact of Climate in Late Medieval England
Kathleen Pribyl Climatic Research Unit University of East Anglia Norwich, UK
ISBN 978-3-319-55952-0 ISBN 978-3-319-55953-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-55953-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017942814 © Springer International Publishing AG 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: Luttrell Psalter, Lincolnshire, circa 1325-40 (British Library, Add. MS 42130, f.172v) Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Acknowledgements
I would firstly like to thank Christian Pfister for his invaluable advice and support throughout the PhD thesis which largely forms the basis of this book. I also wish to thank the EU project ‘Millennium’ and the OCCR (Oeschger Centre for Climate Research) in Switzerland for initially funding this research and for offering a platform for the exchange of ideas between historians and natural scientists that provided the stimulus for many topics covered in this book. I am also indebted to Jordan Claridge, Richard Cornes, Andrea Kiss, Christian Rohr and Phil Slavin for encouragement and counsel. The staff at the Norfolk Record Office in Norwich are gratefully acknowledged for their help with accessing the medieval account rolls, and for granting permission to use example images of these compoti in this book. Due to the poor condition of a number of these account rolls, they could only be consulted with the assistance of the conservator, Nick Sellwood. I am also grateful to the Bodleian Library in Oxford, the Climatic Research Unit
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