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コロナ禍真っ只中の2021年から北大のスラブ・ユーラシア研究センターの諫早庸一さんを代表とする「14世紀の危機」科研に参加してきました。この科研は歴史学と自然科学を架橋するもので、諫早さんの精力的な活動もあって、いつも刺激的な議論が交わされています。

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Climate Changes, Plagues and Wars: The Crisis of the Fourteenth Century in the Afro-Eurasian Context, edited by Nicola Di Cosmo, Yoichi Isahaya https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-climate-changes-plagues-and-wars.html

目次は以下の通りです。

Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
List of Figures

Introduction: The Crisis of the 14th Century in Afro-Eurasian Context
Nicola Di Cosmo & Yoichi Isahaya

1. Cistercian Monasteries and Rural Society in the Rhine-Moselle-Meuse Region during the Transition to the Little Ice Age
Toshio Ohnuki
2. Cooling in the Lower Amur Basin in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
Kazuyuki Nakamura
3. Climate Anomalies and Disasters in China in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
Nobuhiro Uno & Takeshi Nakatsuka
4. Snowfall in Baghdad: The Mongol Empire on the Threshold of the Little Ice Age
Yoichi Isahaya & Takeshi Nakatsuka
5. Between the Adriatic and the Caspian Sea: Socio-Environmental Perspectives on the Crisis of the Fourteenth Century from the Former Byzantine and Future Ottoman Imperial Spheres
Johannes Preiser-Kapeller
6. Climate and Famines in the Rus’ Principalities and the Golden Horde in the Fourteenth Century: A Comparison of Historical Records and Climate Proxies
Ruslan Shakhmatov
7. Looking for Trouble: Non-Textual Indications of Plague Morality Crises in the Late Chinggisid World, c.1330-1400
Philip Slavin
8. Epidemics and the Fourteenth Century’s Decline of the Chinggisid States: A Reassessment
Ishayahu Landa
9. The Crisis of 1343 on the Black Sea: Causes, Context and Consequences
Nicola Di Cosmo
10. A Witness of Two Dynasties’ Decadence: The Life and Career of Arghūn Shāh al-Nāṣirī in the Shadow of 14th Century Crisis
Yihao Qiu

Index