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Introduction; 1 Famines: At the Interface of Nature and Society; Abstract; Antagonisms; Entanglements; Famine as Boundary Object; Famines During the Little Ice Age (1300-1800); References; Interdisciplinary Approaches; 2 The European Mortality Crises of 1346-52 and Advent of the Little Ice Age; Abstract; References; 3 Combining Written and Tree-Ring Evidence to Trace Past Food Crises: A Case Study from Finland; Abstract; Introduction; Indirect Sources of Subsistence Crises; Tree-Ring Evidence on Climate and Harvest Fluctuations; Proxies of Population and Food Supply.
Climate, Frost and Crop FailureThe Little Ice Age and Frequency of Crop Failures; Man-Made Proxies of Food Crises; Identifying and Quantifying Famines from Proxy Data?; Summary; Appendix; References; Archival Sources; Online Databases; Printed Sources and Literature; Socionatural Entanglements; 4 Two Decades of Crisis: Famine and Dearth During the 1480s and 1490s in Western and Central Europe; Abstract; Introduction; Subsistence Crises During the Little Ice Age: Definitions, Approaches and Factors; The Crisis at the Beginning of the 1480s.
The Crisis at the End of the 1480s and at the Beginning of the 1490sConclusion; References; Printed Sources; Literature; 5 Climate and Famines in the Czech Lands Prior to AD 1500: Possible Interconnections in a European Context; Abstract; Introduction; Documentary Data; Climate and Famines in the Czech Lands Prior to 1500; The Famine of the 1280s; The Famine of the Second Decade of the Fourteenth Century; The Famine of the 1430s; Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; 6 Food Insecurity and Political Instability in the Southern Red Sea Region During the 'Little Ice Age, ' 1650-1840.
AbstractThe SRSR Grain System Before the 'Little Ice Age'; The 'Little Ice Age' and the Collapse of the SRSR System; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Coping; 7 The Role of Climate and Famine in the Medieval Eastern Expansion; Abstract; Introduction; Competing Concepts; Multifactorial Models; Pictorial Sources; Serial Material; Integrative Approaches; References; Sources; Literature; 8 Famines in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy: A Test for an Advanced Economy; Abstract; Italian Famines, 1400-1700: An Overview; Advanced (Pre-modern) Economies Facing Famine: The Case of the 1590s.
The Republic of GenoaDuchy of Ferrara; Conclusion: Agrarian Innovation and the (Quasi- )End of Famine; References; 9 Bread for the Poor: Poor Relief and the Mitigation of the Food Crises of the 1590s and the 1690s in Berkel, Holland; Abstract; Introduction; Berkel and Its Poor Relief System; The Crisis of the Late 1590s; The Crisis of the Late 1690s; Conclusions; References; 10 Educationalizing Hunger. Dealing with the Famine of 1770/71 in Zurich; Abstract; Poverty, Hunger, Work and the Will to School the Children; The Pastors' View of the Famine as a Divine Punishment.
Climate, Frost and Crop FailureThe Little Ice Age and Frequency of Crop Failures; Man-Made Proxies of Food Crises; Identifying and Quantifying Famines from Proxy Data?; Summary; Appendix; References; Archival Sources; Online Databases; Printed Sources and Literature; Socionatural Entanglements; 4 Two Decades of Crisis: Famine and Dearth During the 1480s and 1490s in Western and Central Europe; Abstract; Introduction; Subsistence Crises During the Little Ice Age: Definitions, Approaches and Factors; The Crisis at the Beginning of the 1480s.
The Crisis at the End of the 1480s and at the Beginning of the 1490sConclusion; References; Printed Sources; Literature; 5 Climate and Famines in the Czech Lands Prior to AD 1500: Possible Interconnections in a European Context; Abstract; Introduction; Documentary Data; Climate and Famines in the Czech Lands Prior to 1500; The Famine of the 1280s; The Famine of the Second Decade of the Fourteenth Century; The Famine of the 1430s; Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; 6 Food Insecurity and Political Instability in the Southern Red Sea Region During the 'Little Ice Age, ' 1650-1840.
AbstractThe SRSR Grain System Before the 'Little Ice Age'; The 'Little Ice Age' and the Collapse of the SRSR System; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Coping; 7 The Role of Climate and Famine in the Medieval Eastern Expansion; Abstract; Introduction; Competing Concepts; Multifactorial Models; Pictorial Sources; Serial Material; Integrative Approaches; References; Sources; Literature; 8 Famines in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy: A Test for an Advanced Economy; Abstract; Italian Famines, 1400-1700: An Overview; Advanced (Pre-modern) Economies Facing Famine: The Case of the 1590s.
The Republic of GenoaDuchy of Ferrara; Conclusion: Agrarian Innovation and the (Quasi- )End of Famine; References; 9 Bread for the Poor: Poor Relief and the Mitigation of the Food Crises of the 1590s and the 1690s in Berkel, Holland; Abstract; Introduction; Berkel and Its Poor Relief System; The Crisis of the Late 1590s; The Crisis of the Late 1690s; Conclusions; References; 10 Educationalizing Hunger. Dealing with the Famine of 1770/71 in Zurich; Abstract; Poverty, Hunger, Work and the Will to School the Children; The Pastors' View of the Famine as a Divine Punishment.