Browsing History (Scholarly Publications) by Sponsor "European Research Council (ERC)"
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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
(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 ... -
Cowboys, Cod, Climate and Conflict: Navigations in the Digital Environmental Humanities
(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 ... -
Food and Power in Sixteenth-Century Ireland: Studying Household Accounts from Dublin Castle
(2022)Studying the food practices of one vast and prominent Irish household reveals a com plex history of consumption, status, and power in sixteenth-century Europe. This article is a close analysis of the little studied but ... -
Food and Social Politics in Early Modern Ireland: Representing the Peasant in The Parliament of Clan Tomas
(2022)Recent historiography has demonstrated the immense material and metaphorical importance of food to representing social distinction in medieval and early modern Europe. To date there has been no effort to explore the Irish ... -
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Historic Diet and Foodways: The FoodCult Project
(2021)This research note introduces the methodology of the FoodCult Project, with the aim of stimulating discussion regarding the interdisciplinary potential for historical food studies. The project represents the first major ... -
Inventing the Grand Banks: A Deep Chart. Humanities GIS, Cartesian, and Literary Perceptions of the North-West Atlantic Fishery ca 1500-1800
(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 ... -
Lunar Eclipses Illuminate Timing and Climate Impact of Medieval Volcanism
(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 ... -
New challenges for the Human Oceans Past agenda
(2022)We contend that the harvest of marine resources played a critical, but as yet underappreciated and poorly understood, role in global history. In a review of the field of marine environmental history and archaeology we ... -
The North Atlantic Fish Revolution, c. AD 1500
(2019)We propose the concept of the “Fish Revolution” to demarcate the dramatic increase in North Atlantic fisheries after AD 1500, which led to a 15-fold increase of cod (Gadus morhua) catch volumes and likely a tripling of ... -
Understanding Early Modern Beer: An Interdisciplinary Approach
(2023)Beer was a staple of early modern diets across northern Europe and the Atlantic World. While its profound social, economic, and cultural significance is well established, little is known about the nature and quality of the ...