Climate, disease and society in late-medieval Ireland
PUBLISHED Palaeoclimatic data are used to track the significant changes in atmospheric circulation patterns and weather conditions that affected Ireland between 1000 and 1500CE. How these climatic developments and associated shifts in the epidemiological environment were mapped onto Irish society is...
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fttrinitycoll:oai:tara.tcd.ie:2262/95280 2023-05-15T13:40:00+02:00 Climate, disease and society in late-medieval Ireland Ludlow, Francis 2020 159-252 http://hdl.handle.net/2262/95280 http://people.tcd.ie/fludlow https://doi.org/10.3318/priac.2020.120.13 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3318/priac.2020.120.13 en eng Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 120C Campbell, B.M.S., Ludlow, F., Climate, disease and society in late-medieval Ireland, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 2020, 120C, 159-252 0035-8991 Y http://hdl.handle.net/2262/95280 http://people.tcd.ie/fludlow 219964 https://doi.org/10.3318/priac.2020.120.13 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3318/priac.2020.120.13 orcid:0000-0003-0008-0314 Y openAccess Digital Humanities Making Ireland Smart & Sustainable Planet Antarctic ice core British History CLIMATE CLIMATE CHANGE CLIMATE-CHANGE Changing Climate Climate Change Impacts on the Environment Climate History Climate-Conflict Linkages Conflict and Dispute Resolution ECONOMIC HISTORY GLOBAL CLIMATE-CHANGE GREENLAND ICE CORE HOLOCENE CLIMATE Historical Climate Research Historical Climatology Historical GIS Historical Geography Historical geography of Ireland ICE CORE ICE-CORE Ice cores Irish economic history Irish History Irish climate PALAEOCLIMATE PALEOCLIMATE Political Social Poverty and the Poor TREE RINGS Volcanic Eruptions bubonic plague climate change impacts climate research dendrochronology disease history environmental history explosive volcanism Health History Journal Article scholarly_publications refereed_publications 2020 fttrinitycoll https://doi.org/10.3318/priac.2020.120.13 2021-02-25T23:52:17Z PUBLISHED Palaeoclimatic data are used to track the significant changes in atmospheric circulation patterns and weather conditions that affected Ireland between 1000 and 1500CE. How these climatic developments and associated shifts in the epidemiological environment were mapped onto Irish society is explored using a tree-ring chronology reflecting the retreat and advance of oak woodland. Years characterised by significant weather-related food scarcities are identified from the Irish Annals in combination with the independent record of English chronicles, grain yields and prices. Between the thirteenth and the fifteenth centuries the experience of the two countries is shown to have diverged. It is suggested that in late-medieval Ireland scarcity heightened the resort to violence and was from 1348 often a proximate cause of plague outbreaks. In combination, scarcity, violence and plague helped entrap fifteenth-century society in a low-level equilibrium of sparse population, economic under-development, scarcely disguised poverty and low resilience to natural hazards. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Greenland Greenland ice core ice core The University of Dublin, Trinity College: TARA (Trinity's Access to Research Archive) Antarctic Greenland Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature 120C 159 |
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Digital Humanities Making Ireland Smart & Sustainable Planet Antarctic ice core British History CLIMATE CLIMATE CHANGE CLIMATE-CHANGE Changing Climate Climate Change Impacts on the Environment Climate History Climate-Conflict Linkages Conflict and Dispute Resolution ECONOMIC HISTORY GLOBAL CLIMATE-CHANGE GREENLAND ICE CORE HOLOCENE CLIMATE Historical Climate Research Historical Climatology Historical GIS Historical Geography Historical geography of Ireland ICE CORE ICE-CORE Ice cores Irish economic history Irish History Irish climate PALAEOCLIMATE PALEOCLIMATE Political Social Poverty and the Poor TREE RINGS Volcanic Eruptions bubonic plague climate change impacts climate research dendrochronology disease history environmental history explosive volcanism Health History Ludlow, Francis Climate, disease and society in late-medieval Ireland |
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PUBLISHED Palaeoclimatic data are used to track the significant changes in atmospheric circulation patterns and weather conditions that affected Ireland between 1000 and 1500CE. How these climatic developments and associated shifts in the epidemiological environment were mapped onto Irish society is explored using a tree-ring chronology reflecting the retreat and advance of oak woodland. Years characterised by significant weather-related food scarcities are identified from the Irish Annals in combination with the independent record of English chronicles, grain yields and prices. Between the thirteenth and the fifteenth centuries the experience of the two countries is shown to have diverged. It is suggested that in late-medieval Ireland scarcity heightened the resort to violence and was from 1348 often a proximate cause of plague outbreaks. In combination, scarcity, violence and plague helped entrap fifteenth-century society in a low-level equilibrium of sparse population, economic under-development, scarcely disguised poverty and low resilience to natural hazards. |
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