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Did Philip the Bold’s 1395 ordinance usher in the first French wine appellation in Burgundy, more than 500 years ahead of its time?

Did Philip the Bold’s 1395 ordinance usher in the first French wine appellation in Burgundy, more than 500 years ahead of its time?

Medievalists.net Menu New research about medieval weather conditions has revealed that a severe drought that struck Europe in the early 14th-century displays similarities with the 2018 weather anomaly, which also left the continent experiencing exceptional heat and drought. The event also marked the transition from the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age and would lead into a wet and cold phase of the 1310s and the resulting Great Famine of 1315–21. Advertisement Researchers from the ...

© Pixabay The transition from the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age was apparently accompanied by severe droughts between 1302 and 1307 in Europe; this preceded the wet and cold phase of the 1310s and the resulting great famine of 1315-21. Comment: Meaning that the extreme coldevents were seeing could signal the beginning of the next ice age, as it did back then. In the journal Climate of the Past, researchers from the Leibniz Institutes for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe ...