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by JackFr
1044 days ago
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You’re kind of all over the place here. The Avignon papacy lasted from 1309-1376. The “Year without a summer” was 1816. The French Revolution was 1789. Your source on Inuits landing in Scotland seems to conclude that it either didn’t happen or was possibly the result of European kidnapping. I guess I’m not sure what your point is. |
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Harsh environmental conditions where its generally colder, like a mini ice age, is going to up root people, force migration, lower crop yields, more hunger, more violence, more lawlessness.
Its one of the reasons why the Stradivarius violins were sought after, the colder climate resulted in less tree growth, tighter tree rings and it altered the sound of musical instruments of the day[1]
There were also alot of extreme weather events during this little ice age.
IF you read this book https://www.google.com/search?q=little+ice+age+brian+fagan in it, Fagan asserts there was an earthquake down in Avignon which people took to be a sign of god, which forced the catholic church to relocate with its tail between its legs. I dont know how true that is, there is nothing online I can find, perhaps an example of an entity managing its online reputation.
In that book, he also asserts an innuit paddled up one of the rivers of one of the city's in Scotland, he claims to have got this data from reading old newspapers of the time.
Just like he got information on crop yields from old monasteries, country estate owners and others who kept records, any record made back in that time. I got the impression it took him a long time to compile the data, to arrive at the narrative he espouses.
Its an interesting read, and you'll see how weather can destabilise any country very quickly, especially with todays level of communication and stuff going viral around the world, but also how these events build and build over time, changing culture. Even today the French dont take 'non' for an answer, when you see farmers blockading the ports and Eurotunnel, or rioting on the streets over the pension age.
If you dont know the history, you wont realise the significance of the events you watch unfolding on the news today.
So my point is, the artistry is a depiction of the time, its meta data, especially if you know some of the winter scene pictures were painted in June or Sept!
Does that point shock you?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stradivarius#Construction