This is part of our special feature on Food, Food Systems, and Agriculture. Famines and lesser dearths were frequent threats to medieval English society, especially in the century and a half before the mid-fourteenth century crisis of the Black Death, and during a period when population grew to such an extent that it outstripped society’s capacity to feed itself. A combination of narrative accounts of famine, and a more general mapping of harvests through yield and … Continue reading Famine and Dearth in Medieval England