The Floods of 589 and Climate Change at the Beginning of the Middle Ages: An Italian Microhistory
Paolo Squatriti
It always rains in the Middle Ages. In modern cinema, for instance, from Bergman's classic Seventh Seal to Fuqua's more recent King Arthur (2004), medieval weather is bad. That was significantly worse than what came before it and after not a view restricted few unreflective movie directors: numerous scholarly texts also depict epochal shifts at end of antiquity, beginning modernity, taking place context climate deterioration repeated catastrophic meteorological events.
Speculum|PubMed