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TWO SHORTAGES OF LESSER MAGNITUDE
2022
Overview
The system of food production and distribution in the Crown of Aragon could function surprisingly well, keeping people supplied with basic necessities. Effective agricultural management, economic knowledge, and integrated trade made it possible to surmount small shortages. Even so, the strict hierarchical society of late medieval Europe routinely denied resources to the needy. Almost no one thought of universal resilience as a priority, or even as a good.¹ Fluctuating agricultural, economic, and social factors created the dynamics of famine resilience and vulnerability.² The complex interaction between these forces explains why the experience of the Crown of Aragon, and to a
Publisher
Penn State University Press,Pennsylvania State University Press
Subject
ISBN
9780271091747, 0271091746
