The Third Horseman: A Story of Weather, War, and the Famine History Forgot.
New York: Penguin Books, 2015.
First published in 2014 with the perhaps more descriptive subtitle:
Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century.
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Author Information:
- William Rosen, author's website, william-rosen.net.
- William Rosen, Penguin Random House.
- William Rosen Obituary, The Star-Ledger. Rosen died 28 April 2016, age 61.
- William Rosen. Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe. New York: Viking Penguin, 2007.
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My post on Justinian's Flea is here.
The main scholarly text on the Great Famine of the Fourteenth Century is:
William Chester Jordan.
The Great Famine: Northern Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.
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Wikipedia Articles:
- Great Famine of 1315–1317.
- Crisis of the Late Middle Ages.
- Medieval Warm Period, c.950 to c.1250.
- Little Ice Age, c.1300 to c.1850.
- Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- England in the Late Middle Ages, from the Thirteenth Century, the end of the Angevins and the accession of Henry III (in 1216), until the accession to the throne of the Tudor dynasty in 1485.
- Edward I of England (1239–1307), Edward Longshanks, Hammer of the Scots; King of England 1272–1307.
- Conquest of Wales by Edward I of England, 1277–1283.
- First War of Scottish Independence, 1296-1328.
- Edward II of England (1284–1327), King of England 1307–1327.
For more on this period of English history see my post for Holmes, The Later Middle Ages, 1272-1485 (1966).
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