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The dance of death in late Medieval and Renaissance Europe : environmental stress, mortality and social response

Kiss, Andrea, editor, Pribyl, Kathleen, editor

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\"This volume investigates environmental and political crisis 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, the infestation of pests, 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. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Environmental and Climate History, Environmental Humanities, Medieval and Early Modern History and Historical Geography, as well as Climate Change and Environmental Sciences\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,earthscan from Routledge
• Subject: Human ecology Europe History To 1500. / Human ecoogy Europe History 16th century. / Climatic changes Europe History To 1500. / Climatic changes Social aspects Europe. / Death Social aspects Europe. / Epidemics Europe History. / Famines Europe History.
• ISBN: 9781138590366

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
GF540.D36 2020	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE