![]() ![]() ![]() William Rosen draws on a wide array of disciplines, from military history to feudal law to agricultural economics and climatology, to trace the succession of traumas that caused the Great Famine. After seven years, the combination of lost harvests, warfare, and pestilence would claim six million lives – one eighth of Europe’s total population. Wars between Scotland and England, France and Flanders, and two rival claimants to the Holy Roman Empire destroyed all remaining farmland. Two separate animal epidemics killed nearly 80 percent of northern Europe’s livestock. Next came the four coldest winters in a millennium. It didn’t stop anywhere in north Europe until August. ![]() How a seven-year cycle of rain, cold, disease, and warfare created the worst famine in European history. Title: Third Horseman, The: A Story of Weather, War, & the Famine History Forgot ![]()
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