The Third Horseman by William Rosen
How a seven-year cycle of rain, cold, disease, and warfare created the worst famine in European history In May 1315 it started to rain. It didn't stop anywhere in north Europe until August. Next came the four coldest winters in a millennium. Two separate animal epidemics killed nearly 80 percent of northern Europe's livestock. Wars between Scotland and England, France and Flanders, and two rival claimants to the Holy Roman Empire destroyed all remaining farmland. After seven years, the combination of lost harvests, warfare, and pestilence would claim six million lives--one eighth of Europe's total population. 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. With dramatic appearances by Scotland's William Wallace, the luckless Edward I, and his treacherous Queen Isabella, history's best-documented episode of catastrophic climate change comes alive, with powerful implications for future calamities.For more than twenty-five years, William Rosen worked as an editor and publisher at Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, and the Free Press.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780670025893 |
| ISBN 10 | 0670025895 |
| Title | The Third Horseman |
| Author | William Rosen |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2014-05-15 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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