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

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

Lecture by Michael McCormick

Given at Yale University, on October 8, 2014

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, and the latest development in his new “Initiative for the Science of the Human Past.”

See also:

Volcanoes and the Climate Forcing of Carolingian Europe, A.D. 750–950

Climate Change and the Fall of the Roman Empire

A match of climate and history

Annals of climate