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BY-NC 4.0 license Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2020

Plague and Desertion – A Consequence of Anthropogenic Landscape Change? Archaeological Studies in Southern Germany

From the book The Crisis of the 14th Century

  • Rainer Schreg
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110660784-011
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Abstract

The formation of villages and the introduction of systematic three-field crop rotation transformed the landscape of western central Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. These processes have often been seen as an important progress of the medieval agriculture. This paper examines these developments from the perspective of human ecology. There is some evidence to suggest a connection between village formation and the transformation of the cultural landscape in the High Middle Ages on the one hand and the Black Death in the late Middle Ages on the other. Recent archeological data suggests that these changes to the cultural landscape were in fact major factors in or preconditions for the fourteenth-century crisis.

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The Crisis of the 14th Century
The Crisis of the 14th Century

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Frontmatter
Contents
Teleconnections, Correlations, Causalities between Nature and Society? An Introductory Comment on the “Crisis of the Fourteenth Century”
Ventus vehemens et terribilis per totam Angliam: Responses and Reactions to a Short-term Crisis in the British Isles
The Potential of Late Medieval and Early Modern Narrative Sources from the Area of Modern Switzerland for the Climate History of the Fourteenth Century
Hic aues incipiunt cantare: Shifts in the Beginning of Seasons in Medieval Calendars of Rome and the Nordic Countries
Climate and the Crises of the Early Fourteenth Century in Northeastern Europe
Food Crisis in Fourteenth-Century Hungary: Indicators, Causes and Case Studies
The Crisis of 1315–1322 in Bresse as Depicted in Manorial Rolls
The Mongol Yuan Dynasty and the Climate, 1260–1360
Facing the Crisis in Medieval Florence: Climate Variability, Carestie, and Forms of Adaptation in the First Half of the Fourteenth Century
The Little Ice Age and Byzantium within the Eastern Mediterranean, ca. 1200–1350: An Essay on Old Debates and New Scenarios
Plague and Desertion – A Consequence of Anthropogenic Landscape Change? Archaeological Studies in Southern Germany
Narratives of Environmental Events in the Winchester Pipe Rolls and English Historiography of the Early Fourteenth Century
The Little Ice Age and the Hungarian Kingdom? Sources and Research Perspectives
Thoughts on a Connected Fourteenth Century
Index of Places
Index of Names
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