The crisis of the 14th century : teleconnections between environmental and societal change Frontmatter Contents Teleconnections Correlations Causalities between Nature and Society An Introductory Comment on the Crisis of the Fourteenth Century Bauch Martin Schenk Gerrit Jasper Ventus vehemens et terribilis per totam Angliam: Responses and Reactions to a Short term Crisis in the British Isles Brown Peter The Potential of Late Medieval and Early Modern Narrative Sources from the Area of Modern Switzerland for the Climate History of the Fourteenth Century Camenisch Chantal Hic aues incipiunt cantare: Shifts in the Beginning of Seasons in Medieval Calendars of Rome and the Nordic Countries Halonen Marko Climate and the Crises of the Early Fourteenth Century in Northeastern Europe Huhtamaa Heli Food Crisis in Fourteenth Century Hungary: Indicators Causes and Case Studies Kiss Andrea Piti Ferenc Sebők Ferenc Teiszler Éva The Crisis of 1315 1322 in Bresse as Depicted in Manorial Rolls Labbé Thomas The Mongol Yuan Dynasty and the Climate 1260 1360 Li Tana Facing the Crisis in Medieval Florence: Climate Variability Carestie and Forms of Adaptation in the First Half of the Fourteenth Century Nanni Paolo The Little Ice Age and Byzantium within the Eastern Mediterranean ca. 1200 1350: An Essay on Old Debates and New Scenarios Preiser Kapeller Johannes Mitsiou Ekaterini Plague and Desertion A Consequence of Anthropogenic Landscape Change Archaeological Studies in Southern Germany Schreg Rainer Narratives of Environmental Events in the Winchester Pipe Rolls and English Historiography of the Early Fourteenth Century Schuh Maximilian The Little Ice Age and the Hungarian Kingdom Sources and Research Perspectives Vadas András Thoughts on a Connected Fourteenth Century Hoffmann Richard C. Index of Places Index of Names Pre modern critical interactions of nature and society can best be studied during the so called Crisis of the 14th Century . While historiography has long ignored the environmental framing of historcial processes and scientists have over emphasized natures impact on the course of human history this volume tries to describe the at times complex modes of the late medieval relationship of man and nature. The idea of teleconnection borrowed from the geosciences describes the influence of atmospheric circulation patterns often over long distances. It seems that there were teleconnections in society too. So this volumes aims to examine man environment interactions mainly in the 14th century from all over Europe and beyond. It integrates contributions from different disciplines on impact perception and reaction of environmental change and natural extreme events on late Medieval societies. For humanists from all historical disciplines it offers an approach how to integrate written and even scientific evidence on environmental change in established and new fields of historical research. For scientists it demonstrates the contributions scholars from the humanities can provide for discussion on past environmental changes