The Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century

by William Rosen

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670025895
• ISBN13: 9780670025893
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Viking
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher