In the late fourteenth century, the medieval Crown of Aragon experienced a series of food crises that created conflict and led to widespread starvation. Adam Fr

This volume brings together environmental and human perspectives, engages with both historians and scientists, and, being mindful that environments and disease

The Routledge Handbook of Medieval Rural Life brings together the latest research on peasantry in medieval Europe. The aim is to place peasants – as small-sca

How did medieval people think about the environments in which they lived? In a world shaped by God, how did they treat environments marked by religious differen

The first systematic study of famine in all parts of Europe from the Middle Ages to present. It compares the characteristics, consequences and causes of famine