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Darrera modificació: 2017-08-14
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Brázdil, Rudolf - Kotyza, Oldřich - Bauch, Martin, "Climate and famines in the Czech Lands Prior to AD 1500: possible interconnections in a european context", dins: Collet, Dominik - Schuh, Maximilian (eds.), Famines During the ʻLittle Ice Age' (1300-1800): Socionatural Entanglements in Premodern Societies, Berlin, Springer, 2017, 91- 114 pp.
- Resum
- This paper addresses the three most disastrous famine episodes in the Czech Lands before AD 1500—the 1280s, 1310s and 1430s—and analyses them in both meteorological and socio-political terms. Adverse weather anomalies with harmful hydro-meteorological extremes and difficult socio-economic conditions were prerequisites for famine episodes, just as in the rest of Europe. Although times of famine occurrence and the states of the societies vary from country to country, a cascade of key phenomena are generally common to all: (a) complicated socio-political situations (including wars); (b) accumulation of adverse weather patterns influencing agricultural production; (c) severe-to-catastrophic failures of key agricultural crops (particularly grain) for at least two successive years; (d) direct consequences (dramatic increases in the prices of key foodstuffs; famine; consumption of poor-quality substitute diets and thus increases in vulnerability to illness; spread of disease; sharp rises in human mortality; villages abandoned; severe increases in crime).
- Matèries
- Alimentació
Història - Economia
- URL
- https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319 ...
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