Observations about Climate, Farming, and Peasant Societies in Carolingian Europe
Nicolas Schroeder
The intricate relationship between climate change, agricultural 
productivity, rural poverty, food insecurity, and migration is 
a matter of contemporary political concern.1 Against this background, 
and as natural sciences increasingly provide high-resolution 
data about past climates, scholarly interest in the impact 
climate change on societies rise.2 Students ancient 
societies have suggested that, various places periods, 
change caused famines, socio-economic collapse, migration.3 
Several recent publications explore aspects thematic 
cluster within spatial chronological framework Carolingian 
realm.4 This paper a contribution to wider field 
research. It raises several questions specifically regarding 
of extreme weather events variability 
farming peasant
The Journal of European economic history