Environment, Society and the Black Death: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Late-Medieval Crisis in Sweden 9781785700545, 9781785700552, 9781785700569, 9781785700576, 1785700545

In the mid-fourteenth century the Black Death ravaged Europe, leading to dramatic population drop and social upheavals.

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English Pages 208 Year 2016

Table of contents :
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1: An interdisciplinary approach
Chapter 2: Current knowledge on the late-medieval crisis
Chapter 3: Societal crisis and environmental change
Part II: Empirical studies
Chapter 4: Abandonment, agricultural change and ecology
Chapter 5: Change, desertion and survival --
an archaeology of the late-medieval crisis
Chapter 6: Living conditions in times of plague
Part III: Conclusions in a wider perspective
Chapter 7: Environment-society interactions. Chapter 8: Studying the late-medieval crisis --
reflections on research perspectivesChapter 9: Epidemics in a social context
Chapter 10: Summary of conclusions
References
Author presentations
Appendix 1: Pollen sites
Appendix 2: Osteological stature data
Appendix 3: Isotope data.

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