The great transition : climate, disease and society in the late medieval world / Bruce M.S. Campbell.
"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 woul...
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2016.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Interactions between nature and society in the late medieval world
- 2. Efflorescence : the enabling environment and the rise of Latin Christendom
- 3. A precarious balance : mounting economic vulnerability in an era of increasing climatic instability and re-emergent pathogens
- 4. Tipping point : war, climate change and plague shift the balance
- 5. Recession : the inhibiting environment and Latin Christendom's late medieval demographic and economic contraction
- Epilogue: Theory, contingency, conjuncture and the Great Transition.