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Winter, snow and cold in the life of the Westviking

Medievalists.net — Sun, 04 Jan 2015 01:54:32 +0000

The main purpose of this paper is to examine how the Westviking were influenced by winter, snow and cold in their day-to-day life as they were making progress in the West.

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Connecting Roman and Medieval Climate and Historical Change: Five Challenges for the 21st Century

Medievalists.net — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 17:45:45 +0000

Michael McCormick discusses use of latest tools of climate science, human genetics and computer science to better understand the history of Medieval Europe and Rome,

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Of sagas and sheep: Toward a historical anthropology of social change and production for market, subsistence and tribute in early Iceland

Medievalists.net — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 12:50:13 +0000

This dissertation deals with the formation of chiefdoms, communities, ecclesiastical institutions and state, and with production for market, subsistence and tribute in early Iceland in the context of climatic change and ecological succession.

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Daily Weather Observations in Sixteenth-Century Europe

Medievalists.net — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 00:38:37 +0000

Thirty-two weather diaries written in astronomical calendars in central Europe in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries are presented and discussed.

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Climatic Change and the North Atlantic Seaways During the Norse Expansion

Medievalists.net — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 12:47:55 +0000

In order to appreciate how the Norse expansion might have been influenced by climatic fluctuations it is necessary to consider in outline the mechanisms which control weather and climate in the North Atlantic area at the present day, and which also obtained in the past.

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Wax or wane? Insect perspectives on human environmental interactions

Medievalists.net — Mon, 19 May 2014 12:02:49 +0000

The sites discussed in this paper include a range of sites investigated on national road schemes and other development projects across Ireland, covering a long time-span from the Neolithic period through to the medieval period.

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Norse cultural reaction to climate change during the little ice age and their societal collapse in Greenland

Medievalists.net — Sat, 12 Apr 2014 14:52:12 +0000

This study aims to understand the adaptations of the Norse Greenlanders to climate change in their new home.

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How warm weather led to the rise of Genghis Khan

Medievalists.net — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 16:07:31 +0000

In the thirteenth-century a Mongol warrior named Genghis Khan took control of the nomadic tribes on the Great Stepee and launched a series of invasions that would see a vast empire being established from China to Eastern Europe. Now a team of researchers have shown that their success can be partly attributed to climate change.

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Floods and weather in 1342 and 1343 in the Carpathian Basin

Medievalists.net — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 00:41:25 +0000

Concerning weather, weather-related extremes and catastrophic consequences, 1342 was an extraordinary year in most parts of Central Europe, even in such an extraordinary decade as the 1340s. Accounting with the seven flood events (including one Danube flood) mainly of great magnitude, at present 1342 is the most important known flood year of medieval Hungary.

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Into the frontier: medieval land reclamation and the creation of new societies. Comparing Holland and the Po Valley, 800-1500

Medievalists.net — Sun, 29 Sep 2013 09:15:15 +0000

In the paper it is shown that medieval land reclamation led to the emergence of two very divergent societies, characterised by a number of different configurations; (a) power and property structure, (b) modes of exploitation, (c) economic portfolios, and (d) commodity markets.

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