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The great famine: northern Europe in the early fourteenth century

William C. Jordan 1996 © Princeton University Press
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  • 9780691058917 (paper)
  • 9780691011349 (hardcover)
  • 9781400822133 (ebook)
Subject
  • European: 400-1400
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • LIST OF MAPS (page vii)
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (page ix)
  • Prologue (page 3)
  • PART I: A CALAMITY "UNHEARD-OF AMONG LIVING MEN"
  • ONE The Bringers of Famine in 1315: Rain, War, God (page 7)
  • TWO The Harvest Failures of Animal Murrains (page 24)
  • PART II: THE ECONOMICS AND DEMOGRAPHY OF THE FAMINE IN RURAL SOCIETY
  • THREE Prices and Wages (page 43)
  • FOUR The Cost-of-Living Crisis: Lords (page 61)
  • FIVE The Cost-of-Living Crisis: Rustics (page 87)
  • SIX The Struggle for Survival (page 108)
  • PART III: TOWNS AND PRINCIPALITIES
  • SEVEN Urban Demography and Economy (page 127)
  • EIGHT Coping in Towns (page 151)
  • NINE The Policies of Princes (page 167)
  • Epilogue (page 182 )
  • NOTES (page 189 )
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 261 )
  • INDEX (page 305 )
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Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AHR 104.4 (Oct. 1999): 1365-1366 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28199910%29104%3A4%3C1365%3ATGFNEI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-P
JEH 57.3 (Sep. 1997): 725-726 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-0507%28199709%2957%3A3%3C725%3ATGFNEI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-M
JIH 28.1 (Summer 1997): 91-93 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-1953%28199722%2928%3A1%3C91%3ATGFNEI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-7
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