The Great European Famine: The First Catastrophe of the 14th Century
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The Great European Famine of 1315, 1316 and 1317By Henry S. Lucas:
www.jstor.org/stable/2848143
HOW GREAT WAS THE GREAT FAMINE OF 1314-22: BETWEEN ECOLOGY AND INSTITUTIONS:
economics.yale.edu/sites/defa...
Flood and Famine in Britain, 1314-1316:
www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK...
The Great Famine: Northern Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century: www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7s2...
A quantitative hydroclimatic context for the European Great Famine of 1315-1317:
www.nature.com/articles/s4324...
Climate change and the population collapse during the “Great Famine” in pre-industrial Europe:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...
What caused the weather to change? The Tarawera hypothesis: pastglobalchanges.org/download...
www.sciencedirect.com/science...
www.jstor.org/stable/20078878
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The Book of Revelation, singular.
TOO SOON FOR ARTAX, SIMON! STILL RATTLED FROM CHILDHOOD!
An episode on Bosnia or Cypress would be great please
I would love a channel based on current events. Kind of like world news? Based on your research. 🙏🙏🙏
i.e- Ukraine vs Russia vs nato, James Webb, Fukushima water,
When I was in college, I had to read a book called "The Calamitous Fourteenth Century." It covered the famines, 100 Years War, and the Black Death. I knew about all these things in isolation before I read the book, but I never saw them put in the context of the same time period. Realizing that a single person could have experienced all of them just seemed like utter hell.
If that’s Barbara Tuchman’s excellent book, I’m re-reading that again after a few decades.
I just bought the book. Thanks for the suggestion!
“Past was the worst”
Sounds like a great time to be alive.
☠☠☠
thanks fpr the recommendation, i love these books
"The sleep of reason produces monsters," kudos to you for quoting Goya 🇪🇸
And kudos for telling the rest of us that it's a quote worth investigating :)
@@andersjjensen Gracias 😀
Wasn’t the painting Goya as well?
@@GrudgeyCable Yes, it was Goya's famous painting called "Saturn Devouring His Son"
The story of Hansel and Gretel, although published in the 1800's were based on stories of parents abandoning their children in forests during the famine in order to feed less mouths
How absolutely terrible.... 😭😫😱😰😡😠
"The past was the worst"
-Fact Boy
in addition, the wet conditions led to a great deal of mold related problems (and sewage not draining away !) which caused more health problems.
ergot would be the least of your concerns at that point
Yeah, the french went crazy
1:35 - Chapter 1 - The 3rd horseman
3:50 - Chapter 2 - A hard rain is gonna fall
6:45 - Mid roll ads
8:10 - Chapter 3 - Hunger sets in
9:50 - Chapter 4 - 100 * 60,33 * 60 and 5 humans
12:35 - Chapter 5 - Hunger games
16:30 - Chapter 6 - A weakened continent
Thanks
14th century European: Hey man want to come over after work. I'm having a neighbor for dinner.
It is astounding to me that any of us today are actually here....our distant ancestors must have been pretty tough,or lucky or both.
I wish my ancestors didn't make it, this living thing is crap.
Oh, as a geeky guy in black onçe said, "Life finds a way ."
No mention of "And it was pleasant"
@@Crackdalf Oh, as a geeky guy in black onçe said, "Life finds a way ."
No mention of "And it was pleasant"
I was thinking the same thing. And I suspect it is simply down to sheer numbers, and because we are so spread out. All that it takes is just a handful of survivors to get things going again. So I guess for the ones who make it, it is a little bit of both luck and toughness.
I think it's actually more surprising to imagine what would our population be if those who died long ago didn't die and instead lived on and added more onto our population.
Like apparently the Black Death killed some 40% of global population, imagine if that 40% survived to have more children ect ect...
Lately I’ve been listening to different stuff that shows how something like the Black Death didn’t just happen one day. As Simon points out the generation had immune issues to start with from lack of food. This just doesn’t get emphasized enough.
Now that you say this it makes more sense that a 1/4 of Europe died from the Black Death.
Yeah, it's kind of a big part of the story too...I'm amazed I've never heard more about this. You rarely see it from this perspective either.
Nothing in this world, in this UNIVERSE happens at random.
Every effect has a cause/causes.
@@thedirty530 that’s what I was thinking, since we’re taught about these catastrophes as separate events I think we tend to dissociate that they’re all connected by a few decades/centuries.
Hunger always surrounds disease and war. We don’t really realize today how vicious humans can be, as most of us don’t truly know what real hunger feels like. A psychopath is a psychopath, but a starving man, is dangerous despite his temperament.
General knowledge and descriptions of the Black Death should really be prefaced with this event. All too often it's like "everything was fine and then suddenly PLAGUE!!!" Knowing now that the first infested rats arrived on a continent already weakened physically and psychologically by famine and mass crop and livestock die-offs, the massive impact of that particular plague in an age when huge outbreaks of deadly disease weren't really that uncommon makes more sense now.
Hi Simon, you mentioned Mount Tarawera. Have a thought for another Geographic video. The Pink and White Terraces, they were destroyed by Tarawera's last big boom. Were considered a natural wonder of the world. Crazy to think that a volcano less than an hour from where I live now, affected my ancestors in The Netherlands.
I second this but he should do the whole Taupo Volcanic Zone with it. The Taupo volcano is the worlds most recent super eruption (I advise moving) and it's most recent eruption was big enough to be recorded by the Chinese and Romans. There's also White Island with it's deadly eruption 2 years ago and not to mention Ngauruhoe/Mt Doom which means the script writers can make it look like Simon cares about Lord of the Rings.
That would be interesting.
Thank you good sir for an interesting view of what is history.learning what happened long ago may help us if one country colapes. God forbid. Texting from the U.S....
Europeans: "Finally, this famine is going to subside. Now we can live..."
Black Death: "HI"
Dr. Pfizer : " I have a vaccine for that ! "
Great historical information.
Wonderful video! Normally CZcams videos always seem to concentrate on the plague. It's nice to have a little bit of famine every now and again, you know, just to mix things up.
Very good video. As an Eastern European i really appreciate that you mentioned our regions, because most of similar videos are focused just on western Europe. This was one of the most informative videos with really good narrative I've seen in a long time. Good job!
I think this is one of y’all’s best scripts yet. Vivid, touching, passionate. 10/10
I'm put in mind of Hansel and Gretel. Dead mother, children driven away into the woods, cannibal witch.
Widespread famine could explain all of these.
Man....I was thinking about how bad these last few years have been & you see something like this. I guess things can Always get worse. A series of bad conditions can impact societies for centuries.... That's insane!
I had not heard about this, and as a kiwi its really interesting seeing the impact of Tarawera overseas
Congratulations. Your mountain starved more people than Mao... Well almost 🤣
@@ryanward10 I wasnt really saying in in a celebratory sense. I was more interested as we learn about the local impact in school, but seeing the wider global effect is interesting as I hadnt thought about it before. However, read it how you like.
The fact that the subtitle is "First Catastrophe of the 14th Century" is just a wee bit ominous. Thank you these videos - these topics were rushed over in history classes in school, so the additional detail is heartbreaking and illuminating all at once.
Good to see this channel finally getting revived!
This is one of the saddest videos I've seen. It happened centuries ago, and I still feel like crying.
Keep crying, our turn is coming.
Artax...35 years later...too soon!
@@redstone1999 It isn't fool
@@debater452 I'm afraid not, UN is warning that this year will be a food crisis around the world. And if you look the news, not mainstream media, there is an insane number of "accidents" in food facilities in the US.
@@egillskallagrimson5879 That might happen in third world contries, but un western contries there is more then enough food
Always refreshing and heart warming, thanks Simon.
Simon, you make history enjoyable to learn.
Yes the 14th century is often times described as being catastrophic especially for Europe.
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Worst time of all times
@@russellfitzpatrick503 Magnetic pole reversal coming. The South Pole isn't even on the continent of Antarctica anymore and the next big CME could change everything.
@@InfoSponge101 no one online and I bet in your real life takes anything you say serious. You are a joke to everyone that ever known you. Merry Christmas
@@sonny9493 Said the person who judges a book by the front...
Not a cellphone in sight, just people living the moment.
You’ve been killing it lately with the videos
Way to cheer up the festive season Whistle Boy. Thanks.
Hi Simon, there could almost be a new sister Channel - disastergraphics, so many video ideas come to mind. Great videos keep going!
Is there anyone else who thinks Simon should just go ahead and create his own streaming service? I’d totally subscribe. He has enough content on here to create a streaming service.
Yessss!!!
# beard & bald bios
Forsooth make him a Knight
Or at least put some premium content on Nebula
My most "favorite" thing about the 1315 famine has got to be the sheer irony in it being caused by excessive rainfall as opposed to a drought as this is the most common cause associated with natural famines.
Legend has it for every new channel that Simon makes his beard gets a little longer.
too bad the top side never seems to benefit 🙃
It's a condition, beardus parasiticus.
Prior to this eruption there was another horrendously huge volcanic eruption from New Zealand, Taupo eruption was even worse in which today is a lake the size of Singapore island, only recently they found out that it's actually two volcanos together and still active 300 metres under the water of the lake, strangely enough we have 8 geothermal power stations around the edges of the rim of the volcanic vents,
After the Tonga Vulcan a week ago and the aftermath of this. I think you should better move somewhere safe
@@aytestarose8903 ha ha yeah thats.been my thoughts for 44 years, we have on averge a thousand earthqaukes per yesr. But then again its more frighening driving around town ha ha ,🤢🥶💩👾.
And people today say we've got "food shortages" and "have it hard", yeah, okay then..........
Yes, we wouldn't survive 10 minutes in the middle ages with today's mentality/mindset. Imagine feeding on corpses. This is a horror movie ...
Humans are getting weaker. Anything is a hardship...
"Got sick on a Carnival Cruise ship.. worst.. cruise.. ever!" ~comments an image of Titanic going down~
@@sandhilltucker lol... well, yes, that's a good example of how many people perceive things. Anything is "horrible", "worst thing ever" .... when in fact it is nothing compared to those times or things that are happening now ... wars continue to exist, people continue to starve... We live in two different worlds: people who were born in developped countries and have in general a good life (despite not valuing it ) and those who live in underdeveloped countries . These have without doubt a difficult life, trying to survive and reach wealthy countries to earn a living.
I was watching another Simon video when the Great Famine of 1315 struck in a video game I was playing. Wanting to learn about it, I searched for it on CZcams and found a video on it by Simon. I love this guy haha
another fantastic episode.
Greetings from Canada 🇨🇦.
Just love this channel.
Please keep it up!
U are going to do The Great Plague soon?
Can't wait!
I recently looked up the global food reserves we have now, it’s estimated at three years worth. Volcanic winters can last decades.
I've wondered which volcano caused this. Thank you for providing this information. You do make excellent videos.
Can you do one on the picts? Loved this video
Good video 👍
Oh, would you look at that, I got KFC adds while watching this video.
Product placement 🤦♀️
I love this channel!
Awesome video
Something something the second-worst thing to happen to Ypres -- the town was pretty much shelled 24/7 for four years (Nov 1914-October 1918) during the Great War, sometimes with early chemical weapons.That'd make a good episode if you haven't done it already The historians break it down into five "battles", but the guns (in the artillery sense) never really stopped firing. Just constant artillery barrage for four years, to the point that there were hills of cartridge casings around the guns, and both sides had a bit of a panic when they couldn't make artillery shells fast enough to keep up with the demand.
As ever ..., a class video. If my history classe at school had been even 1% as intersting I'd never have chosen geography
Exactly. They forced us to learn about the industrial revolution and for years I thought history was dull
I feel so sad for what they went through.
Interesting stuff
It's amazing to think that my dad's family survived this famine in Silesia in the 13th century.
After ww2 they were ethnically cleansed and had to flee to the west alongside millions of other Germans or be killed.
Man did what nature could not.
They lost their homes forever.
The ethnic cleansing of the Eastern Germans is the biggest unspoken tragedy of our era
Yes...that whole time period was down right brutal....
Gives a whole new perspective to someone looking good.
Nice video , 14th century was tough. I wonder how Byzantium and south was affected but I guess better than north of Europe.
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@@InfoSponge101 Spamming = report
@@archstanton6102 Denying that history could repeat itself, hmm okay..
@@InfoSponge101 Spamming the same message multiple times across comments? Yeah - you sure know how to convince people.
What is an Ice age farmer?
Why not give some fact checked peer reviewed evidence?
@@lazycat7409 Yes there is. It is how the human race can make actual progress (hopefully).
I am curious though to see if this guy has anything other than spamming comments.
Wow, I love driving passed Mt Tarawera. It's beautiful. I never knew it caused so much trouble.
I love your videos very much
Great as usual. Still waiting on that "Allegedly" shirt announcement =D
Actions have consequences, and so do events. Thank you for helping us be more aware of how things are tied together!
I hadn't even heard of that volcano before, especially in line with the famine. I'm curious if the Alps had anything to do with the more sporadic rains on either side of them.
The other volcano held to be partly responsible was Mt Samalas in eastern Indonesia, which is now a hole in the ground, filled with a lake. That was 50 years earlier, and there was cooling before 1815, made worse by the NZ eruption.
Maybe we could get a video on it in the future.
The title promises great inspiration for RPG worldbuilding!
Things not heard in the year 1400: "happy 95th birthday, grandpa!"
Superb narrator
So sad, before the famine, conditions were so great that ancient and long-living parents in their late 30s would see their offspring reach the ripe old age of 21 🤧
Love the Bob Dylan bit 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
What about fishing? It seems like there would have been a much greater reliance of fish.
remember though, for fish to be traded any distance inland it needed to be preserved. No salt. I also suspect that the disturbances in the atmosphere would have eventually effected ocean currents, and therefore traditional fishing grounds-- but that's a guess on my part.
I love this channel.
Also. ALGORITHM
Thank you very much. I didn't knew there was a big famine.
I don't think this can be said too often: The past sucked the big one.
The best part was the kids turning the tables and feasting on their "weakened parents". THE NEXT GENERATION LIVES! 😂
funny how simon pronounces leipzig correctly, as it is nearby prague, while failing at Augsburg
So what I hear is if you’re in Europe in the 14th century, the best thing you could do is get out of Europe 😂 but then you get thrown overboard to drown.
What fascinates me most about these historcal events is pretty much everybody alive today has ancestors that lived through this hell
Europe: (Descends into madness)
Genoa: (Bill wurtz voice) “Hell yeah! Now we got business!”
If you're alive today never forget what your ancestors, 1000s of generations, must have endured so that you, modern person, could enjoy Simon Whistler.
Best channel easily. If i was history teacher I would air his videos in the classroom
The 14 century was tough one for both western Europe &most parts of the islamic world.Famine, plague &large scale wars were the norm.
I respect the fact that this was written by a fellow Goya/Dylan fan.
In the middel of a story with millions of death that clip of the Neverending Story made me go aah.... damn that movie traumatised me as a kid!
Wow...Its kind of messed up that most people were so easily persuaded to eat other humans.I had been homeless earlier in my life,and even had been found a few times so malnourished that if I wasn't brought to a hospital,I'd have died,and it never once occurred to me that I could just eat people lol...
To be fair, you don't have easy access nowadays to that kind of food source. You'd have to roam the cemeteries and dig deep holes with the little powers you have just to figure out how to open that coffin and if you manage that, chances are that you only find a skeleton. Much easier to search the garbage cans for meals others threw away. But back in the 14th century, in many places corpses may literally have been all over the place. I can easily imagine the temptation to help yourself and cut off some arm or leg from a dead man if your alternative is to slowly starve to death.
The famine of 1788 in France? The result of a humongous eruption occurred in Iceland four years earlier. The famine of the 1310s? (Possibly) the result of the eruption of a New Zealand volcano. I'm noticing a pattern.
Allow me to introduce to you: La Palma. Going on right now and has been going on for several weeks straight.
@@FallingPicturesProductions oh thanks very much!
Funny how any news of that, not to mention any news of anything other than the body count for covid, (and sport of course, always sport) is almost unmentioned unless you dig for it, totally unmentioned in fact on regular tv news programs.
1788 famine = 1789 revolution? Do we really need to think too hard about such things. It's only now that we a have a global network of food supplies that WEALTHIER nations can survive
@@FallingPicturesProductions la palma eruption ceased a few days ago
Man, aren't you a ray of sunshine. La Palma doesn't approach any of the historical mega eruptions.
Wow, so dark. I'm amazed enough horses and cattle were protected enough to make it through that time. Now, I shall think about hoarding some shelf stable food.
I have a book called the great mortality that talks about this a little bit as it contributed to the lower immune system of people that made them vulnerable to the plague. It said the situation was like a man standing in a room with the waterline up to his neck but any changing it would cause him to drowned.
10:25 is where we get the phrase "fresh meat"
as a dutchie, hmm yes, a very "enjoyable" video, even more thankful for our relative recent water management efforts now.
All of a sudden I'm feeling much happier
And on top of all of this, once they started having babies again they had higher rates of diabetes, obesity, pre-term labor, and miscarriages due to the epigenetic changes caused by starvation.
Fascinating-every day's a schoolday.
“Think of Artax in the Swamp of Sadness”
Too soon. It will always be too soon.
Inflation and the rising of prices are not the same ...
Strictly speaking that is true. Rising prices is an effect of eroding value of currency.
Made me think of what people are going through now in Afghanistan
North Korea also.
One thing that I can notice is that on every video there is someone to write a comment about thechapters of the video.
Rest In Peace to those that passed away.
Your list of channels is missing Decoding the Unknown, Into the Shadows, and Warographics.
The turmoil and desperation is what defines Europe!
When the majority is starving and resorting to cannibalism for survival, its very risky being rich, fat and tasty looking.
7:50 Wouldn't A Food Sponsor Make More Sense For This Video?
I appreciated the NeverEnding Story reference
I glad someone else caught that. I can’t be the only one old enough to get it
Even today, we are only 3 meals away from anarchy.
My first thought was that either Hello Fresh or Magic Spoon should have sponsored. 🤣☠️
How was this not on Into the Shadows?
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