The Great Transition: Climate, Disease and Society in the Late-Medieval World

by Bruce Campbell and Bruce M.S. Campbell

Book Overview

In the fourteenth century the Old World witnessed a series of profound and abrupt changes in the trajectory of long-established historical trends. Transcontinental networks of exchange fractured and an era of economic contraction and demographic decline dawned from which Latin Christendom would not begin to emerge until its voyages of discovery at the end of the fifteenth century. In a major new study of this 'Great Transition', Bruce Campbell assesses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521144434
• ISBN13: 9780521144438
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 485 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"