András Vadas, lektor við sagnfræðideild Eötvös Loránd háskólans í Búdapest, heldur fyrirlestur hjá Miðaldastofu Háskóla Íslands fimmtudaginn 16. febrúar kl. 16.30 í stofu 101 í Odda:
András Vadas
Little Ice Age and East Central Europe
Sources, results, and limitations
Fimmtudaginn 16. febrúar 2017 kl. 16.30
Thursday February 16, 2017, at 16.30
Oddi 101
In most parts of Western and West Central Europe, the period from the early fourteenth century onward is considered to be an important period of medieval climate and environmental history. The fourteenth century is usually referred to as the beginning of the transition from the Medieval Climatic anomaly to the Little Ice Age, followed by a more or less constant colder period ending in the nineteenth century. These climatic fluctuations have been demonstrated in Western Europe by both historical sources and scientific means. Due to the relative scarcity of written sources and scientific studies, the validity of the climatic epochs in East Central Europe is, however, far less evident.
The presentation aims at showing the research possibilities of climate history in East Central Europe with special attention to the potential of historical and archaeological sources both in identifying long-term trends and short-term weather events. Some individual weather events will be discussed. On the one hand, the weather events of the 1310s, the period of the so-called great famine in NW-Europe, as well as the impact of the eruption of the Laki in 1783 to the weather of East Central Europe.
András Vadas is Assistant Professor at the Department of Medieval European History at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. His main research interests are the climate and environmental history of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Times.
Fyrirlesturinn verður fluttur á ensku. / The talk will be delivered in English.
Fyrirlesturinn er öllum opinn. / All are welcome to attend.
Miðaldastofa Háskóla Íslands
The University of Iceland Centre for Medieval Studies
miðaldastofa.hi.is