Browsing History (Scholarly Publications) by Author "Ludlow, Francis"
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The 852/3 CE Mount Churchill Eruption: Examining the Potential Climatic and Societal Impacts and the Timing of the Medieval Climate Anomaly in the North Atlantic Region
Ludlow, Francis; Kostick, Conor; Yang, Zhen (European Geosciences Union, 2022)The 852/3 CE eruption of Mount Churchill, Alaska, was one of the largest first-millennium volcanic events, with a magnitude of 6.7 (VEI 6) and a tephra volume of 39.4–61.9 km3 (95 % confidence). The spatial extent of the ... -
The AD775 Cosmic Event Revisited: The Sun is to Blame
Ludlow, Francis (2013) -
Around the World in 80 Light Years: Frank Ludlow Talks to Alan Dean Foster
Ludlow, Francis (2004) -
Climate, disease and society in late-medieval Ireland
Ludlow, Francis (2020)Palaeoclimatic data are used to track the significant changes in atmospheric circulation patterns and weather conditions that affected Ireland between 1000 and 1500CE. How these climatic developments and associated shifts ... -
Climatic and Societal Impacts of a "Forgotten" Cluster of Volcanic Eruptions in 1108-1110 CE
Ludlow, Francis (2020)Recently revised ice core chronologies for Greenland have newly identified one of the largest sulfate deposition signals of the last millennium as occurring between 1108 and 1113 CE. Long considered the product of the 1104 ... -
Climatic, Weather and Socio-Economic Conditions Corresponding with the mid-17th Century Eruption Cluster
Ludlow, Francis (Routledge, 2022)The mid-17th century is characterized by a cluster of explosive volcanic eruptions in the 1630s and 1640s, climatic conditions culminating in the Maunder Minimum, and political instability and famine in regions of western ... -
Cowboys, Cod, Climate and Conflict: Navigations in the Digital Environmental Humanities
Travis, Charles; Ludlow, Francis; Holm, Poul; Kostick, Conor; Nicholls, John; McGovern, Rhonda (Routledge, 2022)The DEH can be seen as an academic response to three major interwoven changes and challenges: the digital revolution; global warming and global warming and social-political agency related to environmental change. In the ... -
The Dating of Volcanic Events and their Impacts upon European Climate and Society, 400-800 CE
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Demystifying Collapse: Climate, Environment, and Social Agency in Pre-Modern Societies
Ludlow, Francis (2020)Collapse is a term that has attracted much attention in social science literature in recent years, but there remain substantial areas of disagreement about how it should be understood in historical contexts. More specifically, ... -
The Double Binds of Indigeneity and Indigenous Resistance
Ludlow, Francis (2016)During the twentieth century, indigenous peoples have often embraced the category of indigenous while also having to face the ambiguities and limitations of this concept. Indigeneity, whether represented by indigenous ... -
Environmental History in Ireland
Holm, Poul; Ludlow, Francis (2013)Overview of the field of environmental history in Ireland -
European Weather Extremes in the Lifetime of Charlemagne (c.742 - 814 CE)
Ludlow, Francis (2013)Charlemagne (c.742 – 814 CE) had such a successful political and military career that for the entire subsequent medieval period his reign was portrayed as a model one for all European rulers to aspire to. But for all his ... -
Extreme Weather, Climate and Natural Disasters in Ireland
Ludlow, Francis (Environmental Protection Agency, 2010)The aim of this project was to collate historical, proxy and observational (recent) records, and analyse the information within this variety of sources for incidences of extreme weather events and natural disasters, which ... -
The Forgotten Drought of 1765-1768: Reconstructing and Re-evaluating Historical Droughts in the British and Irish Isles
Ludlow, Francis (2020)Historical precipitation records are fundamental for the management of water resources, yet rainfall observations typically span 100–150 years at most, with considerable uncertainties surrounding earlier records. Here, we ... -
The History of Volcanic Eruptions since Roman Times
Ludlow, Francis (2015) -
Interdisciplinary Views on the Impacts of Volcanic Eruptions: From Global to Personal
Ludlow, Francis (2016) -
Interpretation of Celestial and Environmental Phenomena in the Irish Annals
Ludlow, Francis (2005) -
Inventing the Grand Banks: A Deep Chart. Humanities GIS, Cartesian, and Literary Perceptions of the North-West Atlantic Fishery ca 1500-1800
Holm, Poul; Travis, Charles; Ludlow, Francis; MATTHEWS, JOHN ALPHONSUS; HAYES, PATRICK; Rankin, Kieran; Legg, Robert; Nicholls, John; Lougheed, Kevin; Allaire, Bernard; Towns, Lydia (2020)As a feature of the Fish Revolution (1400–1700), the early modern “invention” of the Grand Banks in literary and cartographical documents facilitated a massive and unprecedented extraction of cod from the waters of the ... -
Investigating Hydroclimatic Impacts of the 168-158 BCE Volcanic Quartet and their Relevance to the Nile River Basin and Egyptian History
Ludlow, Francis (Routledge, 2023)The Ptolemaic era (305–30 BCE) is an important period of Ancient Egyptian history known for its material and scientific advances, but also intermittent political and social unrest in the form of (sometimes widespread) ... -
Lunar Eclipses Illuminate Timing and Climate Impact of Medieval Volcanism
Ludlow, Francis; Yang, Zhen (Routledge, 2023)Explosive volcanism is a key contributor to climate variability on interannual to centennial timescales1. Understanding the far-field societal impacts of eruption-forced climatic changes requires firm event chronologies ...