The Great Transition: Climate, Disease and Society in the Late-Medieval World

ISBN-13: 9780521144438 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 485 str.

Bruce Campbell

Opis

Major account of the fourteenth-century crisis which saw a series of famines, revolts and epidemics transform the medieval world.

Recenzje

'Bruce M. S. Campbell's latest book is grounded in prodigious reading from a wide range of disciplines, cutting across fields of agricultural, geographical, economic, social and church history, and into the latest findings in the genetics of Yersinia pestis and especially climate history.' Samuel J. Cohn, Jr, The English Historical Review

Spis treści

1. Interactions between nature and society in the late medieval world; 2. Efflorescence: the enabling environment and the rise of Latin Christendom; 3. A precarious balance: mounting economic vulnerability in an era of increasing climatic instability and re-emergent pathogens; 4. Tipping point: war, climate change and plague shift the balance; 5. Recession: the inhibiting environment and Latin Christendom's late medieval demographic and economic contraction; Epilogue: theory, contingency, conjuncture and the Great Transition; Bibliography; Index.