The dance of death in late medieval and renaissance Europe: Environmental stress, mortality and social response
Kiss, A.; Pribyl, K. (Ed.) (2019). The dance of death in late medieval and renaissance Europe: Environmental stress, mortality and social response. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780429956836. 256 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429491085
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- Kiss, A., editor
- Pribyl, K., editor
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| Abstract |
This volume investigates environmental and political crises 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, pest infestations, 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. |
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