Zanetti Domingues, L.L. orcid.org/0000-0002-9544-0804 (2022) Carestia, maltempo e alleanze politiche: Siena e Manfredi di Sicilia tra 1257 e 1261. Quaderni di storia medievale e di diplomatica dell’Università degli Studi di Milano, 7. ISSN 2611-318X
Abstract
The famine that plagued Europe in the period 1257-1260, caused by the eruption of the Indonesian volcano Samalas, is analyzed in this contribution from the point of view of Sienese public sources. What emerges is that the Tuscan city, in comparison to other northern Italian communes, proved readier to manage this emergency because of the measures it had put in place to combat and prevent food crises during a previous famine, which had affected Tuscany in the period 1248-1256. Siena also managed to turn this emergency to its favor in the context of foreign policy, using the necessity to buy wheat from southern Italy as a pretext to get politically closer to the Ghibelline Manfred of Sicily, without having to break relations with its Guelph ally Florence. This observation shows how the study of environmental history can be useful not only for socio-economic analyses, but it can also have implications for the history of political events in past societies.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 Pearson Education Resources Italia S.r.l.–Milano. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of History (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 01 Dec 2023 15:47 |
Last Modified: | 10 Oct 2024 07:42 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Università degli Studi di Milano and Pearson-Mondadori |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.17464/9788891932396_07 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:205849 |
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