Climate and famines in the Czech Lands prior to AD 1500: Possible interconnections in a European context

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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54337-6_5" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54337-6_5</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54337-6_5" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-319-54337-6_5</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Climate and famines in the Czech Lands prior to AD 1500: Possible interconnections in a European context
Original language description
This paper addresses the three most disastrous famine episodes in the Czech Lands before AD 1500-the 1280s, 1310s and 1430s-and analyses them in both meteorological and socio-political terms. Adverse weather anomalies with harmful hydro-meteorological extremes and difficult socio-economic conditions were prerequisites for famine episodes, just as in the rest of Europe. Although times of famine occurrence and the states of the societies vary from country to country, a cascade of key phenomena are generally common to all: (a) complicated sociopolitical situations (including wars), (b) accumulation of adverse weather patterns influencing agricultural production, (c) severe-to-catastrophic failures of key agricultural crops (particularly grain) for at least two successive years, (d) direct consequences (dramatic increases in the prices of key foodstuffs, famine, consumption of poor-quality substitute diets and thus increases in vulnerability to illness, spread of disease, sharp rises in human mortality, villages abandoned, severe increases in crime).
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
<a href="/en/project/LO1415" target="_blank" >LO1415: CzechGlobe 2020 – Development of the Centre of Global Climate Change Impacts Studies</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Famines During the Little Ice Age (1300-1800): Socionatural Entanglements in Premodern Societies
ISBN
978-3-319-54341-3
Number of pages of the result
24
Pages from-to
91-114
Number of pages of the book
270
Publisher name
Springer
Place of publication
Cham
UT code for WoS chapter
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