Resumen de Observations about Climate, Farming, and Peasant Societies in Carolingian Europe
The intricate relationship between climate change, agricultural productivity, rural poverty, food insecurity, and rural migration is a matter of contemporary political concern.1 Against this background, and as natural sciences increasingly provide high-resolution data about past climates, scholarly interest in the impact of climate change on past societies is on the rise.2 Students of ancient societies have suggested that, in various places and periods, climate change caused famines, socio-economic collapse, and migration.3 Several recent publications explore aspects of this thematic cluster within the spatial and chronological framework of the Carolingian realm.4 This paper is a contribution to this wider field of research. It raises several questions specifically regarding the impact of extreme weather events and climate variability on Carolingian farming and peasant societies
