IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 836: Medievalists and the Climate Sciences, II: Natural Records as Historical Source Material, Human Consequences of Climate
Tuesday 4 July 2017, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Abteilung für Wirtschafts-, Sozial- und Umweltgeschichte, Universität Bern |
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| Organiser: | Heli Huhtamaa, Abteilung für Wirtschafts-, Sozial- und Umweltgeschichte, Universität Bern / Department of Geographical & Historical Studies, University of Eastern Finland |
| Moderator/Chair: | Christian Rohr, Abteilung für Wirtschafts-, Sozial- und Umweltgeschichte, Universität Bern |
| Paper 836-a | Flooding Events in Premodern Nuremberg, 1400-1800: Combining Evidence from Written Sources and Stalagmites (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Urban, Technology |
| Paper 836-b | Crop Failures and Crises in Relation to Climate-Sensitive Tree-Ring Records in Medieval Finland and North-West Russia, 1100-1500 (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Economics - General, Social History |
| Paper 836-c | Violence and Conflict as a Consequence of Abrupt Climatic Changes and Extreme Weather in Medieval Ireland (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Social History |
| Abstract | The growing number, sophistication, and easier accessibility of detailed climate reconstructions have opened natural archives as a source for medievalists over recent decades. Alongside these new materials, new approaches to assessing the validity and reliability of the sources have emerged. With case studies of Nuremberg (Germany), North-West Europe, and Ireland, the second session reviews the opportunities and limitations of using natural archives such as stalagmite, tree-ring, and ice-core records as supplementary source materials in medieval studies. Moreover, the papers introduce a range of approaches to identify and quantify linkages between climate events and social crises, with the examples of floods, food crises, and violent conflicts over the three study regions. |