Disruptive environmental change and resilience: The german South-West in the later middle ages

Abstract

Models of vulnerability and resilience within environmental history enrich contemporary debates (see Rückert 2019; Rückert (in print)). But it is mainly modern history and social geography that conduct research on historical climatic processes and catastrophes, in terms of what they reveal about vulnerable and resilient societies in the face of crisis. Only very gradually, some voices within medieval studies are beginning to engage with the concept of resilience.