Estimating arable output using Durham Priory tithe receipts, 1341–1450

Dodds, Ben

doi:10.1111/j.1468-0289.2004.00278.x

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“…In England, periods with cooler and wetter climate increased the risk of unfavorable weather conditions during the growing season (Brunt, 2004; Michaelowa, 2001; Pribyl, 2017; Tello et al, 2017). Frequent or heavy rainfall during the growing season and/or harvest constituted the greatest hazard to the crops (Dodds, 2004). Heavy precipitation, also outside the growing season, could regionally water‐log the soils and, in medieval times before barns were in widespread use, damage stacked sheaves (Pribyl, 2017).…”

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Climate and society in European history

Ljungqvist

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Huhtamaa

2020

WIREs Climate Change

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This article evaluates 165 studies from various disciplines, published between 2000 and 2019, which in different ways link past climate variability and change to human history in medieval and early modern Europe (here, c. 700–1815 CE). Within this review, we focus on the identification and interpretation of causal links between changes in climate and in human societies. A revised climate–society impact order model of historical climate–society interactions is presented and applied to structure the findings of the past 20 years' scholarship. Despite considerable progress in research about past climate–society relations, partly expedited by new palaeoclimate data, we identify limitations to knowledge, including geographical biases, a disproportional attention to extremely cold periods, and a focus on crises. Furthermore, recent scholarship shows that the limitations with particular disciplinary approaches can be successfully overcome through interdisciplinary collaborations. We conclude the article by proposing recommendations for future directions of research in the climatic change–human history nexus. This article is categorized under: Climate, History, Society, Culture > Ideas and Knowledge

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate and society in European history

Ljungqvist

Seim

Huhtamaa

2020

WIREs Climate Change

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“…Age at death was not stated in the register before 1813 so deaths were allocated to age groups by a model mortality schedule. Death levels by the end of the fourteenth century, and tithe evidence indicates a similar collapse of output (Dodds, 2004). Clark's (2007) calculations from wage data reach a broadly comparable conclusion for aggregate English population.…”

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Economic-Demographic Interactions in Long-Run Growth

Foreman‐Peck

2015

Handbook of Cliometrics

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Cliometrics confirms that Malthus' model of the pre-industrial economy, in which increases in productivity raise population but higher population drives down wages, is a good description for much of demographic/economic history. A contributor to the Malthusian equilibrium was the Western European Marriage Pattern, the late age of female first marriage, which promised to retard the fall of living standards by restricting fertility. The demographic transition and the transition from Malthusian economies to modern economic growth attracted many Cliometric models surveyed here. A popular model component is that lower levels of mortality over many centuries increased the returns to, or preference for, human capital investment so that technical progress eventually accelerated. This initially boosted birth rates and population growth accelerated. Fertility decline was earliest and most striking in late eighteenth century France. By the 1830s the fall in French marital fertility is consistent with a response to the rising opportunity cost of children. The rest of Europe did not begin to follow until end of the nineteenth century. Interactions between the economy and migration have been modelled with Cliometric structures closely related to those of natural increase and the economy. Wages were driven up by emigration from Europe and reduced in the economies receiving immigrants.

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“…Two studies of late medieval monasteries provide indications of sustained high mortality rates in England ( (Hatcher 1986;Bailey 1996). In the Durham area, tenant numbers imply that population fell to 45 percent of pre-Black Deaths by the end of fourteenth century, and tithe evidence indicates a similar collapse of output (Dodds 2004). …”

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The Western European marriage pattern and economic development

Foreman‐Peck

2011

Explorations in Economic History

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For several centuries, women's age at first marriage in Western Europe was higher than in the east (and in the rest of the world). Over the same period Western Europe began slow but sustained economic development relative to elsewhere. A model based on the economics of the household explains this association in two related ways. Both connect mortality, and the exercise of fertility restraint through higher marriage age, with greater human capital accumulation. The first explanation is simply an association but the second proposes a causal link where higher age of motherhood reduced the cost of investment in children. Evidence is provided that the causal process was operative in later nineteenth century Europe

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Estimating arable output using Durham Priory tithe receipts, 1341–1450

Cited by 24 publications

References 25 publications

Climate and society in European history

Climate and society in European history

Economic-Demographic Interactions in Long-Run Growth

The Western European marriage pattern and economic development

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