Famines During the ʻLittle Ice Ageʼ (1300-1800)

Part I. Introduction

1. Famines: At the Interface of Nature and Society
Dominik Collet, Maximilian Schuh

Part II. Interdisciplinary Approaches

2. The European Mortality Crises of 1346–52 and Advent of the Little Ice Age
Bruce M. S. Campbell

3. Combining Written and Tree-Ring Evidence to Trace Past Food Crises: A Case Study from Finland
Heli Huhtamaa

Part III. Socionatural Entanglements

4. Two Decades of Crisis: Famine and Dearth During the 1480s and 1490s in Western and Central Europe
Chantal Camenisch

5. Climate and Famines in the Czech Lands Prior to AD 1500: Possible Interconnections in a European Context
Rudolf Brázdil, Oldřich Kotyza, Martin Bauch

6. Food Insecurity and Political Instability in the Southern Red Sea Region During the ‘Little Ice Age,’ 1650–1840
Steven Serels

Part IV. Coping

7. The Role of Climate and Famine in the Medieval Eastern Expansion
Andreas Rüther

8. Famines in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy: A Test for an Advanced Economy
Guido Alfani

9. Bread for the Poor: Poor Relief and the Mitigation of the Food Crises of the 1590s and the 1690s in Berkel, Holland
Jessica Dijkman

10. Educationalizing Hunger. Dealing with the Famine of 1770/71 in Zurich
Andrea De Vincenti

Part V. Perceiving and Remembering

11. Starvation Under Carolingian Rule. The Famine of 779 and the Annales Regni Francorum

Stephan Ebert

12. Staging the Return to Normality. Socio-cultural Coping Strategies with the Crisis of 1816/1817
Maren Schulz

13. Remembering Hunger. Museums and the Material Culture of Famine
Andrea Fadani

Nyckelord: Environment, Climate Change, History, general, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts