
The Third Horseman
Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century
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William Hughes
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William Rosen
How a seven-year cycle of rain, cold, disease, and warfare created the worst famine in European history.
In May 1315 it started to rain. It didn't stop anywhere in north Europe until August. Next came the four coldest winters in a millennium. Two separate animal epidemics killed nearly 80 percent of northern Europe's livestock. Wars between Scotland and England, France and Flanders, and two rival claimants to the Holy Roman Empire destroyed all remaining farmland. After seven years, the combination of lost harvests, warfare, and pestilence would claim six million lives - one eighth of Europe's total population.
William Rosen draws on a wide array of disciplines, from military history to feudal law to agricultural economics and climatology, to trace the succession of traumas that caused the Great Famine. With dramatic appearances by Scotland's William Wallace, the luckless Edward II, and his treacherous Queen Isabella, history's best documented episode of catastrophic climate change comes alive, with powerful implications for future calamities.
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Interesting, mostly focused on England & Scotland
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Mostly how UK and Ireland behaved.
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should be titled "The Scottish Wars."
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One of my favorite listens
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A litany of gruesome ways to die
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which, when so weirdly pronounced, lead one to wonder whether he actually knows anything about medieval history. Very disappointing.
Pronunciation of names leaves much to be desired.
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Not your typical history book
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Interesting, but the premise not fully developed
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Great!
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Very informative
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