The dance of death in late medieval and renaissance Europe: environmental stress, mortality and social response
Kiss, A.; Pribyl, K. (Ed.) (2019). The dance of death in late medieval and renaissance Europe: environmental stress, mortality and social response. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780429956836. 256 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429491085
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- Kiss, A., editor
- Pribyl, K., editor
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- Ogilvie, A.E.J. (2019). Famines, mortality, livestock deaths and scholarship: environmental stress in Iceland ca. 1500-1700, in: Kiss, A. et al. The dance of death in late medieval and renaissance Europe: environmental stress, mortality and social response. pp. 9-24, more
- Retsö, D.; Söderberg, J. (2019). Winter severity in medieval Sweden: the documentary evidence, in: Kiss, A. et al. The dance of death in late medieval and renaissance Europe: environmental stress, mortality and social response. pp. 25-45, more
- Pribyl, K. (2019). The grain trade, economic distress and social disorder at a time of environmental stress in East Anglia, 1400-ca. 1440, in: Kiss, A. et al. The dance of death in late medieval and renaissance Europe: environmental stress, mortality and social response. pp. 46-65, more
- de Kraker, A.M.J. (2019). War, climatic stress and environmental degradation during the 15th and 16th centuries. The case of the north Flemish coastal landscape in the estuary of the Western Scheldt, in: Kiss, A. et al. The dance of death in late medieval and renaissance Europe: environmental stress, mortality and social response. pp. 66-85. https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429491085-5, more
- De Kraker, A.M.J. (2019). War, climatic stress and environmental degradation during the 15th and 16th centuries: The case of the north Flemish coastal landscape in the estuary of the Western Scheldt, in: Kiss, A. et al. The dance of death in late medieval and renaissance Europe: environmental stress, mortality and social response. pp. 66-85, more
- Camenisch, C. (2019). From the alpine mountain height to the Swiss Lake District: Climate and society in the city and Republic of Bern from the 14th to the 16th centuries, in: Kiss, A. et al. The dance of death in late medieval and renaissance Europe: environmental stress, mortality and social response. pp. 89-106, more
- Rohr, C. (2019). Apocalyptic riders in the borderlands: Dealing with locust invasion, diseases and war in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Eastern and Southern Austria, in: Kiss, A. et al. The dance of death in late medieval and renaissance Europe: environmental stress, mortality and social response. pp. 107-124, more
- Kiss, A. (2019). A dynamic interplay of weather, biological factors and socio-economic interactions: Late 15th-century-early 16th-century crises in Hungary, in: Kiss, A. et al. The dance of death in late medieval and renaissance Europe: environmental stress, mortality and social response. pp. 125-145, more
- Nowosad, W.; Oliski, P. (2019). The extreme year of 1540 in terms of climate variation from the perspective of historical sources derived from the Polish and Baltic territories, in: Kiss, A. et al. The dance of death in late medieval and renaissance Europe: environmental stress, mortality and social response. pp. 146-155, more
- Jakus, Z.N. (2019). Migration patterns from the Dalmatian hinterland during and after the great hunger of 1453-1454 as a consequence of environmental and political crisis, in: Kiss, A. et al. The dance of death in late medieval and renaissance Europe: environmental stress, mortality and social response. pp. 159-174, more
- Enzi, S.; Becherini, F.; Schedoni, M. (2019). The "Danse Macabre" among climatic variability, famines and epidemics in Northern Italy during the 15th and 16th centuries: An overview through documentary sources, in: Kiss, A. et al. The dance of death in late medieval and renaissance Europe: environmental stress, mortality and social response. pp. 175-197, more
- Labbé, T. (2019). Toute chose se desnature': Environmental changes of the 14th century in the perspective of contemporary witnesses (c. 1330-1400), in: Kiss, A. et al. The dance of death in late medieval and renaissance Europe: environmental stress, mortality and social response. pp. 198-213, more
- Bauch, M. (2019). Chronology and impact of a global moment in the 13th century: The Samalas eruption revisited, in: Kiss, A. et al. The dance of death in late medieval and renaissance Europe: environmental stress, mortality and social response. pp. 214-232, more
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| Abstract |
This volume investigates environmental and political crises that occurred in Europe during the late Middle Ages and the early Modern Period, and considers their effects on people’s lives. At this time, the fragile human existence was imagined as a ‘Dance of Death’, where anyone, regardless of social status or age, could perish unexpectedly. This book covers events ranging from cooling temperatures and the onset of the Little Ice Age, to the frequent occurrence of epidemic disease, pest infestations, food shortages and famines. Covering the mid-fourteenth to mid-seventeenth centuries, this collection of essays considers a range of countries between Iceland (to the north), Italy (to the south), France (to the west) and the westernmost parts of Russia (to the east). This wide-reaching volume considers how deeply climate variability and changes affected and changed society in the late medieval to early modern period, and asks what factors, other than climate, interfered in the development of environmental stress and socio-economic crises. |
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