Farming, famine and plague : the impact of climate in late Medieval England

• Main Author: Pribyl, Kathleen
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Crops and climate > England.; Famines > England.; Plague > England.; Agriculture > England > History.; England.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319559537; 9783319559520
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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 Ages: subsistence crisis and plague. Based on d...