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The Great Famine of 1315–1317 (occasionally dated 1315–1322) was the first of a series of large-scale crises that struck parts of Europe early in the 14th century. Most of Europe (extending east to Poland and south to the Alps) was affected. [1]
Famine [33] France: 1314–1315 Famine. Dikes collapsed, fields vanished, crops rotted, and livestock died in huge numbers due to the disease "Rinderpest". The price of wheat jumped "8 fold". [8] England: 1315–1317 or 1322: Great Famine of 1315–1317: Europe [34] 7,500,000: 1319–1320: Great Bovine Pestilence: England: 1321: Famine: England ...
The Great Famine of 1315–1317 and the Black Death of 1347–1351 potentially reduced the European population by half or more as the Medieval Warm Period came to a close and the first century of the Little Ice Age began. It took until 1500 for the European population to regain the levels of 1300. [2]
The Great Famine of 1315 began a number of acute crises in the English agrarian economy. The famine centred on a sequence of harvest failures in 1315, 1316 and 1321 and combined with an outbreak of murrain, a sickness amongst sheep and oxen in 1319–21 and the fatal ergotism, a fungus amongst the remaining stocks of wheat. [151]
Other major famines include the Great Famine of 1315–17, which affected much of Europe including part of Russia [2] [3] as well as the Baltic states. [4] The Nikonian chronicle, written between 1127 and 1303, recorded no less than eleven famine years during that period. [5]
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The Great Famine of 1315–1317 and the Black Death of 1347–1351 potentially reduced the European population by half or more as the Medieval Warm Period came to a close and the first century of the Little Ice Age began. It took until 1500 for the European population to regain the levels of 1300. [2]
The colder climate resulted in agricultural crises, the first of which is known as the Great Famine of 1315–1317. [68] The demographic consequences of this famine, however, were not as severe as the plagues that occurred later in the century, particularly the Black Death. [69]