Tuesday 9.00 to 11.00 in Room 104

5.2 Food shortages in pre-industrial Europe

Conveners: Tim Newfield and Philip Slavin
Chair: Phillipp Schofield
Tim Newfield:
Subsistence crises in Carolingian Europe (c.750-c.950): frequency, causes, and effects
Nils Hybel:
Food supplies, long-distance trade, climate and population 1000-1350
Philip Slavin:
The Great European Famine between ecology and institutions: reflections from England, c.1314-30
Bruce Campbell and Cormac Ó Gráda:
Harvest shortfalls, grain prices and famines in pre-industrial England

[Abstracts - PDF]