@article{bead6ce2832346e781ed664b688d76c1,
title = "Wales and the Great Famine of the early fourteenth century",
abstract = "The Great Famine of the early fourteenth century was experienced across northern Europe and generated social and economic disruption as well as significant numbers of deaths, perhaps 10 to 15 per cent of populations in some instances. There is though little or no contemporary comment on famine in Wales in this period and also only limited historical discussion to match. This paper examines the context in which famine could have operated in Wales in this period and also explores available insights into the impact of the Great Famine. The limited material suggests that the experience of Wales was generally akin to that of its neighbours.",
author = "Phillipp Schofield",
note = "Funding Information: 1 A first version of this paper was prepared for the Eighth Bangor Colloquium on Medieval Wales, held at Bangor University, October 2016; I am most grateful for useful comments received from those attending the colloquium. Some of the research discussed here arises from a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (MRF-2011–014), {\textquoteleft}The Great Famine. Dearth and society in medieval England c.1300{\textquoteright}, held by the author between 2012 and 2016. For discussions of the Great Famine, see I. Kershaw, {\textquoteleft}The great famine and agrarian crisis in England 1315– 1322{\textquoteright}, Past and Present, 59 (1973), 3–50, reprinted in R. H. Hilton (ed.), Peasants, Knights and Heretics (Cambridge, 1976), pp. 85–132 (from which subsequent references are taken). The most authoritative general study, which provides an effective summary of writing on the Great Famine across early fourteenth-century northern Europe is provided in W. C. Jordan, The Great Famine. Northern Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century (Princeton, 1996). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 University of Wales Press. All rights reserved.",
year = "2018",
month = dec,
day = "31",
doi = "10.16922/whr.29.2.1",
language = "English",
volume = "29",
pages = "143--167",
journal = "Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru | Welsh History Review",
issn = "0043-2431",
publisher = "Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru | University of Wales Press",
number = "2",
}
