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The Great Transition: Climate, Disease and Society in the Late-Medieval World

By Bruce M. S. Campbell

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
0521195888, 9780521195881
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (4049839 bytes)
Series
2013 Ellen Mcarthur Lectures
Pages
490\0
Topic
History
Time added
2017-06-18 15:03:11
Great Britain;England;Scotland;Wales;Europe;Histor

Description

In the fourteenth century the Old World witnessed a series of profound and abrupt changes in the trajectory of long-established historical trends. Transcontinental networks of exchange fractured and an era of economic contraction and demographic decline dawned from which Latin Christendom would not begin to emerge until its voyages of discovery at the end of the fifteenth century. In a major new study of this 'Great Transition', Bruce Campbell assesses the contributions of commercial recession, war, climate change, and eruption of the Black Death to a far-reaching reversal of fortunes from which no part of Eurasia was spared. The book synthesises a wealth of new historical, palaeo-ecological and biological evidence, including estimates of national income, reconstructions of past climates, and genetic analysis of DNA extracted from the teeth of plague victims, to provide a fresh account of the creation, collapse and realignment of Western Europe's late medieval commercial economy.

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