| Tango01 | 17 Dec 2015 12:40 p.m. PST |
…Recorded History': Climate Change, Dearth and Pathogens in the Long Fourteenth Century. "Abstract: Informing historical and archaeological discourse with environmental data culled from documentary and climate proxy records is transforming understanding of political, social economic and cultural change across the North Atlantic and European Atlantic regions generally. Limited record evidence and region-specific proxy data has hindered engagement by historians of medieval Scotland with the exploration of environmental factors as motors for long term and large scale change and adoption of the interdisciplinary methodologies involved in their use. This essay seeks to provide an overview of the potential for such data and methodologies in providing context for the well-rehearsed narratives of political upheaval and socio-economic realignment that have characterised much past Scottish historical discourse. Introduction: In mainstream English and Western European medieval historiography there is a longstanding tradition of research and writing on the impact of environmental factors on human society. Best represented in studies of the fourteenth century, this tradition has its roots in nineteenth-century studies of the plague pandemic commonly known as the Great Mortality. Exploration of the immediate impact and long term consequences of the pandemic has formed a central strand in much modern historical writing from the 1960s onwards, not least because of the wealth of graphic primary source material available from most regions of Europe but also because the nature and manner of our ancestors' responses to the plague hold up a mirror to contemporary experience from Spanish influenza, AIDS, SARS and avian influenza to ebola. English medieval social and economic history has also long recognised the influence of environmental factors on the agricultural regimes of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, although the primary focus was on issues such as population pressure and soil fertility rather than any wider interplay of anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic agency. As a growing body of palaeoenvironmental and proxy climate data has become available from the 1990s onwards, that …"
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| Cerdic | 17 Dec 2015 3:31 p.m. PST |
Well, he might have something interesting to say. I'll never know because it is too hard to read! Massively long sentences and using fifteen long words when one short one would do suggests pretentious academic drivel…. |
 McKinstry   | 17 Dec 2015 4:28 p.m. PST |
I thought McGonagall was the worst disaster ever suffered by Scotland? |
| Wackmole9 | 17 Dec 2015 4:38 p.m. PST |
Hi Didn't that happen last year when they voted to stay in the UK. |
 Bobgnar | 17 Dec 2015 8:40 p.m. PST |
I thought Climate Change started with Bill Clinton? |
| David Manley | 17 Dec 2015 9:56 p.m. PST |
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| FleaMaster | 18 Dec 2015 9:15 a.m. PST |
I always thought it was who we got for next door neighbours…. |
| Tango01 | 18 Dec 2015 11:27 a.m. PST |
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| Royston Papworth | 18 Dec 2015 2:22 p.m. PST |
Lol! I think the Irish will object to that comment FleaMaster! They probably think the same of the Scots… |
| kodiakblair | 18 Dec 2015 3:44 p.m. PST |
Aye BB Westminster's policy of encouraging Scots Protestants to settle in Ireland did wonders for relations between us. |
| Swampster | 18 Dec 2015 4:05 p.m. PST |
The plantation ordered by the king of Scots I take it? |
| FleaMaster | 18 Dec 2015 4:31 p.m. PST |
It doesn't take long before the veneer wears off – PK, I thought better of you :-) |
| Florida Tory | 19 Dec 2015 6:00 a.m. PST |
Clearly it was the deforestation after "Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill" came.  Rick |
