Penury into Plenty

Mukherjee, Ayesha

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“…He wrote for anyone who desired the enhancement of the 'weale publicke', and produced a work that was in fact user-friendly in that it did not assume the precise context in which the knowledge might be used. 92 Floraes Paradise would be organised more conventionally, as a very roughly calendrical list of tasks.…”

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The Invention of Sustainability

Warde

2018

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awaiting the greatest spike in prices and the moment of greatest need for advancing credit, were the cause of the shortages themselves. Oft-times public offi cials agreed, condemning these 'Caterpillars and Locusts', who 'make a private gaine out of a publike detriment'. Sometimes, those local magistrates and the profi teering middlemen were one and the same. 9 But in many regions statute ordered that grain was to be offered for sale in public places to locals fi rst and foremost. Forestalling and re-grating (stockpiling and speculating through sales to middlemen, not for direct use) were banned. Rioters seized cartloads of grain and redistributed it at what they considered a fair price. Whether the blow was considered providential or from the heartless behaviour of rich individuals, there had to be some culpable, human 'covetousness' involved. 10 But hunger was endemic, and not just a condition of 'bad years'. The fear of dearth raised basic issues of equity, distribution and responsibility. The misfortunes of vagabonds and beggars, the mob of the matta-panes ('bread-crazy') might easily be attributed to their own moral failings; but often the question was not clear-cut. Even small towns in Germany might have a beadle stationed at the town gate to hand out coins to the itinerant poor before barring them entry: a curious combination of benefi cence to the stranger with the abdication of responsibility and ejection once this small bounty was extended. 11 In any case the cash dried up when times became hard within the 9 Charles Fitz-Geffrie's sermon, The curse of corne-holders , cited in Steve Hindle, 'Dearth and the English revolution.

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The Invention of Sustainability

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Epistêmê or Technê? A Relationship That Shaped the History of Science. Essay Review of Wolfgang Lefèvre, Minerva Meets Vulcan: Scientific and Technological Literature—1450–1750 (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2021), ix+198 pp. EUR 108.99 (hard cover). ISBN: 9783030730840.

Rusu

2023

Ber Wissenschaftsgesch

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Famines in medieval and early modern Europe—Connecting climate and society

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Collet

2023

WIREs Climate Change

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The article evaluates recent scholarship on famines in Europe during the medieval and early modern periods (c. 700–1800), synthesizing the state‐of‐the‐art knowledge and identifying both research gaps and interdisciplinary potentials. Particular focus is placed on how, and to what extent, climatic change and variability is given explanatory power in famine causation. Current research, supported by recent advances in palaeoclimatology, reveals that anomalous cold conditions constituted the main environmental backdrop for severe food production crises that could result in famines in pre‐industrial Europe. Such food crises occurred most frequently between c. 1550 and 1710, during the climax of the Little Ice Age cooling, and can be connected to the strong dependency on grain in Europe during this period. The available body of scholarship demonstrates that famines in medieval and early modern Europe best can be understood as the result of the interactions of climatic and societal stressors responding to pre‐existing vulnerabilities. Recent research has shown that societal responses to these famines, and the appropriation of their consequences, have been much more comprehensive, dynamic, and substantial than previously assumed. The article concludes by providing recommendations for future studies on historical famines.This article is categorized under: Climate, History, Society, Culture > Major Historical Eras Climate, History, Society, Culture > Disciplinary Perspectives Paleoclimates and Current Trends > Paleoclimate

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Penury into Plenty

Cited by 11 publications

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The Invention of Sustainability

The Invention of Sustainability

Epistêmê or Technê? A Relationship That Shaped the History of Science. Essay Review of Wolfgang Lefèvre, Minerva Meets Vulcan: Scientific and Technological Literature—1450–1750 (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2021), ix+198 pp. EUR 108.99 (hard cover). ISBN: 9783030730840.

Famines in medieval and early modern Europe—Connecting climate and society

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