Projektnummer

0060744

Zusammenfassung

The Dantean Anomaly (1309-21) was a period of rapid climatic changeregarded as the 'tipping point' of the Little Ice Age. From aperspective of climate history, certain underresearched regions inItaly, France and Central Europe offer an abundance of administrativeand narrative sources. The aim is to reconstruct extrememeteorological events like torrential rain and their socio-economicimpact, but also to clarify the vulnerability/resilience of societies.These depended largely on economic, cultural and politicalpreconditions of the respective communities. A point of reference forall case studies ...