The Great European Famine: The First Catastrophe of the 14th Century
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Published 2021-12-28
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Sources:
The Great European Famine of 1315, 1316 and 1317By Henry S. Lucas:
www.jstor.org/stable/2848143
HOW GREAT WAS THE GREAT FAMINE OF 1314-22: BETWEEN ECOLOGY AND INSTITUTIONS:
economics.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Works…
Flood and Famine in Britain, 1314-1316:
www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/The…
The Great Famine: Northern Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century: www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7s2mzhttps://books.googl…
A quantitative hydroclimatic context for the European Great Famine of 1315–1317:
www.nature.com/articles/s43247-020-00016-3
Climate change and the population collapse during the “Great Famine” in pre-industrial Europe:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.936
What caused the weather to change? The Tarawera hypothesis: pastglobalchanges.org/download/docs/magazine/2015-…
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S037…
www.jstor.org/stable/20078878
Rinderpest: www.oie.int/en/disease/rinderpest/
All Comments (21)
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When I was in college, I had to read a book called "The Calamitous Fourteenth Century." It covered the famines, 100 Years War, and the Black Death. I knew about all these things in isolation before I read the book, but I never saw them put in the context of the same time period. Realizing that a single person could have experienced all of them just seemed like utter hell.
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"The sleep of reason produces monsters," kudos to you for quoting Goya 🇪🇸
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The story of Hansel and Gretel, although published in the 1800's were based on stories of parents abandoning their children in forests during the famine in order to feed less mouths
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"The past was the worst" -Fact Boy
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in addition, the wet conditions led to a great deal of mold related problems (and sewage not draining away !) which caused more health problems. ergot would be the least of your concerns at that point
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It is astounding to me that any of us today are actually here....our distant ancestors must have been pretty tough,or lucky or both.
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Lately I’ve been listening to different stuff that shows how something like the Black Death didn’t just happen one day. As Simon points out the generation had immune issues to start with from lack of food. This just doesn’t get emphasized enough.
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Hi Simon, you mentioned Mount Tarawera. Have a thought for another Geographic video. The Pink and White Terraces, they were destroyed by Tarawera's last big boom. Were considered a natural wonder of the world. Crazy to think that a volcano less than an hour from where I live now, affected my ancestors in The Netherlands.
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14th century European: Hey man want to come over after work. I'm having a neighbor for dinner.
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General knowledge and descriptions of the Black Death should really be prefaced with this event. All too often it's like "everything was fine and then suddenly PLAGUE!!!" Knowing now that the first infested rats arrived on a continent already weakened physically and psychologically by famine and mass crop and livestock die-offs, the massive impact of that particular plague in an age when huge outbreaks of deadly disease weren't really that uncommon makes more sense now.
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Hunger always surrounds disease and war. We don’t really realize today how vicious humans can be, as most of us don’t truly know what real hunger feels like. A psychopath is a psychopath, but a starving man, is dangerous despite his temperament.
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Europeans: "Finally, this famine is going to subside. Now we can live..." Black Death: "HI"
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Great historical information.
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I think this is one of y’all’s best scripts yet. Vivid, touching, passionate. 10/10
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Wonderful video! Normally YouTube videos always seem to concentrate on the plague. It's nice to have a little bit of famine every now and again, you know, just to mix things up.
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This is one of the saddest videos I've seen. It happened centuries ago, and I still feel like crying.
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Very good video. As an Eastern European i really appreciate that you mentioned our regions, because most of similar videos are focused just on western Europe. This was one of the most informative videos with really good narrative I've seen in a long time. Good job!
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I had not heard about this, and as a kiwi its really interesting seeing the impact of Tarawera overseas
