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The Great Transition: Climate, Disease and Society in the Late-Medieval World
Bruce M. S. Campbell
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Description for The Great Transition: Climate, Disease and Society in the Late-Medieval World
Paperback. Major account of the fourteenth-century crisis which saw a series of famines, revolts and epidemics transform the medieval world. Num Pages: 420 pages, 93 colour illus. 12 tables. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HBJD; HBLC1; HDP; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 247 x 174. .
In the fourteenth century the Old World witnessed a series of profound and abrupt changes in the trajectory of long-established historical trends. Transcontinental networks of exchange fractured and an era of economic contraction and demographic decline dawned from which Latin Christendom would not begin to emerge until its voyages of discovery at the end of the fifteenth century. In a major new study of this 'Great Transition', Bruce Campbell assesses the contributions of commercial recession, war, climate change, and eruption of the Black Death to a far-reaching reversal of fortunes from which no part of Eurasia was spared. The book ... Read more
In the fourteenth century the Old World witnessed a series of profound and abrupt changes in the trajectory of long-established historical trends. Transcontinental networks of exchange fractured and an era of economic contraction and demographic decline dawned from which Latin Christendom would not begin to emerge until its voyages of discovery at the end of the fifteenth century. In a major new study of this 'Great Transition', Bruce Campbell assesses the contributions of commercial recession, war, climate change, and eruption of the Black Death to a far-reaching reversal of fortunes from which no part of Eurasia was spared. The book ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
769g
Number of Pages
485
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521144438
SKU
V9780521144438
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About Bruce M. S. Campbell
Bruce Campbell is Emeritus Professor of Medieval Economic History at the School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen's University Belfast.
Reviews for The Great Transition: Climate, Disease and Society in the Late-Medieval World
'Promises to be the new bible in environmental history.' Medieval Histories (www.medievalhistories.com) 'Bruce M. S. Campbell's latest book is grounded in prodigious reading from a wide range of disciplines, cutting across fields of agricultural, geographical, economic, social and church history, and into the latest findings in the genetics of Yersinia pestis and especially climate history.' Samuel J. Cohn, Jr, The ... Read more