Social Responses to Climate Change and Extreme Weather in the Age of Charlemagne (740-820)
Jean‐Pierre Devroey
Over the past two decades, growing availability of paleoclimatic data has opened new opportunities for cross-fertilisation and comparison between natural social sciences. The parallel history climate environment is often undertaken in a holistic manner, assuming simple direct causalities change. Faced with climatic series, historian must question nature their specific conditions gathering, validity, environment, as well methods objectives modelling. Comparing primary sources requires considering limitations finding common scale observation. A historical case study just been conducted using series from age Charlemagne (740-820 AD), time interval 80 years that compatible heuristic requirements both disciplines. investigation confronts interpretations Frankish 740 to 820, starting analysis famines 779, 791-794 recurrent subsistence phenomena at beginning 9th century, studying cosmologies representations, political, economic, responses brought by political system.
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