[E&E seminars] MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History 2-23-2007

[Beth Conlin]

MIT Seminar on Environmental 
and Agricultural History
 
In Cod We Trust:  Fishing, Subsistence Agriculture, and Climate Change,
c. AD 900 to 1400

Brian Fagan
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology,
University of California, Santa Barbara
 

Twelve hundred years ago, Medieval Europe was a continent of subsistence
farmers, who lived from harvest to harvest. Archaeologist Brian Fagan
examines a new generation of climatological evidence which provides an
environmental context for the population growth and widespread deforestation
that marked the turn of the millennium. This expansion took place during the
so-called Medieval Warm Period. Did such a climatic event actually occur and
what does it tell us about modern-day global warming (if anything)? As part
of this story, Fagan also examines the explosion in the medieval cod and
herring industry brought about by military commissariats and Christian
doctrine.

 
Friday, February 23, 2007
2:30 to 4:30 PM
Building E51 Room 095
 
Sponsored by MITs History Faculty and the Program in Science, Technology,
and Society
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Collett at mcollett at mit.edu <file:///\\mailto:mcollet@mit.edu> 
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