The great transition : climate, disease and society in the late medieval world

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Label

The great transition : climate, disease and society in the late medieval world

Title remainder

climate, disease and society in the late medieval world

Statement of responsibility

Bruce M.S. Campbell

Creator

• Campbell, B. M. S

Author

• Campbell, B. M. S

Subject

• Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
• Diseases -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
• Europe -- Economic conditions -- To 1492
• Europe -- History -- 476-1492
• Europe -- Social conditions -- To 1492
• Human ecology -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
• Social change -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
• War and society -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
• Black Death -- Europe -- History
• Climatic changes -- Economic aspects -- Europe -- History -- To 1500

Language

eng

Summary

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

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Dewey number

940.1/92

Index

index present

LC call number

D202

LC item number

.C33 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries