Hookland 6/2/20 22:01:19

@texthistory @DirkPuehl @circus_human Very few July snows ever recorded in England in the medieval, (where and when it happens, it tends to be a big deal due to it being hay harvest month), but the hungry gap as recorded in Piers Ploughman et al was ultimately the economics of foreseeable, predictable shortage.

Hookland 6/2/20 22:19:51

@texthistory @DirkPuehl @circus_human And as much as I enjoy H. Rider Haggard’s drug-induced time travel fictions (Allan and the Ice-gods) and enjoy his agricultural travels, he was not exactly a medievalist.