Famine Archive
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Market Failure during the Great Famine in England and Wales (1315-7)
Posted on November 29, 2012 | No CommentsWhile there can be little doubt that the floods of 1314-6 were the primary harbingers of the crisis, it is, perhaps, worth asking to what extent they were the only factors behind the hardship experienced between 1315 and 1317. -
Hot Holiday Reads!
Posted on November 23, 2012 | No CommentsPut down those turkey left-overs and check out some of these hot holiday reads! -
The medical practitioner in Anglo-Saxon England
Posted on October 25, 2012 | No CommentsSome indication of his appearance may be suggested from several surviving illustrations where the leech is portrayed at work. -
Technological Change in Medieval England: A Critique of the Neo-Malthusian Argument
Posted on October 13, 2012 | No CommentsThe last two sections will address this issue by dividing the material into two periods preceding and following the great epidemic. The interpretation that will be provided is heavily indebted to Brenner. -
How Great Was the Great Famine of 1314-22: Between Ecology and Institutions
Posted on September 7, 2012 | No CommentsThe first aspect to be examined is the extent of harvest failures within different crop sectors. The second issue is to what degree was the Great Famine of 1314-22 a subsistence crisis...My project is based on over 3,000 manorial and monastic accounts compiled between c.1310 and 1350. -
Volcano blast led to thousands of deaths in London in 1258, archaeologists find
Posted on August 5, 2012 | No CommentsA report to be released tomorrow by the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) will reveal that a mass burial on the site of the Augustinian priory and hospital of St Mary Spital had thousands of victims from a famine that occurred in 1258. -
From the Brink of the Apocalypse: Confronting Famine, War, Plague, and Death in the Later Middle Ages
Posted on April 23, 2012 | No CommentsAberth writes in the tradition of Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror, both in his lively, readable style aimed at the nonspecialist and in his antiheroic, almost romantic portrayal of late medieval miseries. -
Famine for Profit: Food Surpluses in Medieval Germany
Posted on January 29, 2012 | No CommentsA reading of Malthus’s text reveals that his argument was essentially religious—violation of his “principle” of population was a violation of god’s will...
