Crisis of the Late Middle Ages - The Great European Famine 

Absolutely fantastic. Very informative and interesting. Looking forward to listening to others.

It does amuse me that a lot of what was going on in Europe between 1347 and 1450 (give or take a few years of course) is what eventually led to people heading to North and South America.

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This is a well-delivered, well-researched and interesting video. Thank you! I am currently taking a module called Famine in Medieval England and your channel will be so helpful for my revision. Thanks a lot!

Great delivery and easy to understand, keep it up

Great video! You're helping me with my essay, thanks :)

So interesting! It's amazing to think how influential this event was upon world history

Just want to say, I hope my History professor uses more of your videos for outside work for class.

We are so lucky to be born today and not the 14th century. In one lifetime you could experience this famine, the 100 years war, and the black death. It would seem like the end times.

Brilliant video

thank you so much for linking sources you have postponed my complete loss of sanity for a short while, at least. btw great video

This gives great context to other events happening at this this. Very interesting!

Hi, just got here because Shadiversity recommended you. Wanted to say great work, it's a crying shame your channel is still a bit small. But I'm confident you'll get more views in no time, this is just very interesting :)

Really looking forward to this one

Been looking into this period lately, this is very interesting information! This being my first viewing of one of your videos I'm trying not to read anything into your cheerful delivery lol!

Brave attempt at the Welsh personal and place names! I'm glad to see some wider interest in the famine. Matthew Stevens (Swansea Uni.).

Very genuine guy

The mess of the 14th century started with a slap. "Oh, when I see the lilies in Anagni..." (Dante)

Imagine a human back then,who survived *both* the Plague and the Famine..Im not good with dates;but could such a human have existed?

For knowing medieval society, we need to study the farmers, because that was what almost all Europeans were. A very few nobles (look for castles) and very small middle class the traders, there was very few walled towns and they were very small, we just need to look for our beautiful medieval towns, who are national monuments because they are rare and we have to cross them by foot. Famines caused by crop failures and poor crop years were an ever present danger in medieval Europe. It was often not possible to relieve a famine in one area by importing grain from another area as the difficulty of overland transportation caused the price of grain to double for each 50 miles it was transported. One study concluded that famines in Europe occurred on an average every 20 years between the years 750 and 950. The principal causes were extreme weather and climatic anomalies which reduced agriculture production. Warfare was not found to be a major cause of famine. A study of crop failures in Winchester, England from 1232 to 1349 found that harvest failure occurred an average of every 12 years for wheat and every 8 years for barley and oats. Localized famine may have occurred in years in which one or more crops failed. Weather was again identified as the chief cause. Climatic change may have played a part as the Little Ice Age may have begun between 1275 and 1300 with a consequent shortening of the growing season. Warfare was apparently responsible for a major famine in Hungary from 1243 to 1245. These were the years in the aftermath of the Mongol invasion and widespread destruction. Twenty to fifty percent of the population of Hungary is estimated to have died of hunger and war. The best known and most extensive famine of the Middle Ages was the Great Famine of 1315-1317 (which actually persisted to 1322) that affected 30 million people in northern Europe, of whom five to ten percent died. The famine came near the end of three centuries of growth in population and prosperity. The causes were "severe winters and rainy springs, summers and falls." Yields of crops fell by one-third or one-fourth and draft animals died in large numbers. The Black Death of 1347-1352 was more lethal, but the Great Famine was the worst natural catastrophe of the later Middle Ages. However in places like Scandinavia were the weather was an huge agriculture enemy, it can be counted many hundreds of famines. Only after the Discoveries Age and the arrival to Europe of many brand new products (some that are the basis of our current alimentation, like potatoe, tomato and many others) only than, Europe stopped being full of famines and poverty for being a rich continent capable of populating all parts of the globe, including an huge continent called America. That is why I cant accept how some people still looks for the Age of Discoveries, just for talking in slavery, that existed since the beginning of humankind or colonization, that existed since homo sapiens got out of Africa. The entire world products feeding the entire planet, that was what ended famines in Europe and in great part of the planet!

Throughout history, its always the poor that get affected the most during a crisis. I would of thought the black death would of been one of the worst for medieval Europe, but this is also up there! Good job

Thanks for this informative video. It sounds like a ghastly time. Little wonder they thought it was the end of days.

I've never heard of this population estimate of the period comparable to 19th Century Europe?!!!

The wheel makes me wonder whether you have any connection to Mainz/Mayence?

I found myself enjoying this alot, its intresting to see the major events that happened in the medieval world (I'm shocked I said this cause I'm a history hater)

Well! The Great Famine certainly doesn't get the profile and attention that the black death receives. Very interesting if horrible. It's hard to imagine how hopeless you'd feel watching the world reduced to lawlessness and knowing there was simply no food to be had.

And it was around this time that somebody found out about mansa musa and then all hell broke loose 🤔 makes sense

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