Bruce M.S. Campbell
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“Thus, Edouard Bard and Martin Frank claim that ‘the weight of evidence suggests that solar changes have contributed to small climatic oscillations occurring on time scales of a few centuries, similar in type to the fluctuations classically described for the last millennium: the so-called Medieval Warm Period (900–1400 A.D.) followed on by the Little Ice Age (1500–1800 A.D.)’.”
― The Great Transition: Climate, Disease and Society in the Late-Medieval World
― The Great Transition: Climate, Disease and Society in the Late-Medieval World
“As will be observed, beginning with the Black Death, plague outbreaks were more likely than not to occur during or immediately following years of depressed tree growth and inferior”
― The Great Transition: Climate, Disease and Society in the Late-Medieval World
― The Great Transition: Climate, Disease and Society in the Late-Medieval World
“In the case of the Great Transition, the lead-up to and fallout from the tipping point of the mid-fourteenth century extended over almost 200 years, over which time climate and society, ecology and biology, and microbes and humans were progressively transformed (Figure 1.2). On all six counts the conditions that prevailed by the 1450s were entirely different from those that had characterized the 1250s.”
― The Great Transition: Climate, Disease and Society in the Late-Medieval World
― The Great Transition: Climate, Disease and Society in the Late-Medieval World
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