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The Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century
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The Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century Hardback - 2014

by Rosen, William


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How a seven-year cycle of rain, cold, disease, and warfare created the worst famine in European history
 
In May of 1315, it started to rain. It didn’t stop anywhere in north Europe until Au­gust. Next came the coldest winters in a millennium. Two separate animal epidem­ics killed nearly eighty percent of northern Europe’s livestock. Wars between Scotland and England, France and Flanders, and two rival claimants to the Holy Roman Empire destroyed all remaining farmland. After seven years, the combination of lost harvests, warfare, and pestilence would claim six million lives—one eighth of Eu­rope’s total population.
 
William Rosen draws on a wide ar­ray of disciplines, from military history to feudal law to agricultural economics and climatology to trace the succession of traumas that caused the Great Famine. With dramatic appearances by Scotland’s William Wallace, a luckless Edward II and his Queen Isabella, the onetime French princess who invaded her adopted coun­try, deposed her husband, and put her son, Edward III, on the throne, history’s best documented episode of catastrophic cli­mate change comes alive, with powerful implications for future calamities.

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How a seven-year cycle of rain, cold, disease, and warfare created the worst famine in European history
In May 1315, it started to rain. It didn t stop anywhere in north Europe until August. Next came the four coldest winters in a millennium. Two separate animal epidemics killed nearly 80 percent of northern Europe s livestock. Wars between Scotland and England, France and Flanders, and two rival claimants to the Holy Roman Empire destroyed all remaining farmland. After seven years, the combination of lost harvests, warfare, and pestilence would claim six million lives one eighth of Europe s total population.
William Rosen draws on a wide array of disciplines, from military history to feudal law to agricultural economics and climatology, to trace the succession of traumas that caused the Great Famine. With dramatic appearances by Scotland s William Wallace, and the luckless Edward II and his treacherous Queen Isabella, history s best documented episode of catastrophic climate change comes alive, with powerful implications for future calamities."

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  • Title The Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century
  • Author Rosen, William
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 302
  • Language EN
  • Publisher Viking Adult, Qg16a
  • Date 2014-05-15
  • ISBN 9780670025893

About the author

William Rosen, a former editor and publisher at Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, and The Free Press, is the author of Justinian s Flea and The Most Powerful Idea in the World. He lives in New Jersey."
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