Table of Contents

Chapter 1. The Historical Climatology of late Medieval England.- Chapter 2. The Keeping of Agricultural Records in late Medieval England.- Chapter 3. The Medieval Grain Harvest.- Chapter 4. Farming in Norfolk Around 1800.- Chapter 5. A Reconstruction of Medieval April to July Temperatures for East Anglia.- Chapter 6. Temperature Extremes 1256-1431: Independent Evidence and Context.- Chapter 7. Harvest Length – An Indicator of late Summer Precipitation.- Chapter 8. Harvest Length and Precipitation Extremes 1256-1448: Independent Evidence and Context.- Chapter 9. Climate and the Grain Price, 1264-1431.- Chapter 10. Climate and the Plague, 1348-1500.- Chapter 11. The Dance of Death – A Synthesis.

About the Author

Kathleen Pribyl is an associate fellow at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, UK. She has a background in medieval and environmental history and holds a PhD from the University in Bern, Switzerland, for which she received the Eduard Adolf Stein Award 2012.  Her interests lie in environmental, economic and agricultural history and in particular in the vulnerability of pre-industrial societies to environmental risk.