The Potential of Late Medieval and Early Modern Narrative Sources from the Area of Modern Switzerland for the Climate History of the Fourteenth Century

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Teleconnections, Correlations, Causalities between Nature and Society? An Introductory Comment on the “Crisis of the Fourteenth Century” 1
4. Ventus vehemens et terribilis per totam Angliam: Responses and Reactions to a Short-term Crisis in the British Isles 24
5. The Potential of Late Medieval and Early Modern Narrative Sources from the Area of Modern Switzerland for the Climate History of the Fourteenth Century 43
6. Hic aues incipiunt cantare: Shifts in the Beginning of Seasons in Medieval Calendars of Rome and the Nordic Countries 62
7. Climate and the Crises of the Early Fourteenth Century in Northeastern Europe 80
8. Food Crisis in Fourteenth-Century Hungary: Indicators, Causes and Case Studies 100
9. The Crisis of 1315–1322 in Bresse as Depicted in Manorial Rolls 130
10. The Mongol Yuan Dynasty and the Climate, 1260–1360 153
11. Facing the Crisis in Medieval Florence: Climate Variability, Carestie, and Forms of Adaptation in the First Half of the Fourteenth Century 169
12. The Little Ice Age and Byzantium within the Eastern Mediterranean, ca. 1200–1350: An Essay on Old Debates and New Scenarios 190
13. Plague and Desertion – A Consequence of Anthropogenic Landscape Change? Archaeological Studies in Southern Germany 221
14. Narratives of Environmental Events in the Winchester Pipe Rolls and English Historiography of the Early Fourteenth Century 247
15. The Little Ice Age and the Hungarian Kingdom? Sources and Research Perspectives 263
16. Thoughts on a Connected Fourteenth Century 280
17. Index of Places 289
18. Index of Names 297