H2020Индивидуална стипендия2016–2018

CLIMCONFLICT · Historical Dynamics of Violence, Conflict and Extreme Weather in Medieval Ireland

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2016-03-01 → 2018-02-28
Финансиране от ЕС: 187 866 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF-EF-RI

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Накратко на български

Връзката между екстремното време и насилието в средновековна Ирландия се анализира чрез данни от дървесни пръстени, ледници и исторически хроники. Това помага да се разбере как климатичните шокове влияят върху конфликтите и как обществото се е опитвало да ограничи нестабилността.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

Historical Dynamics of Violence, Conflict and Extreme Weather in Medieval Ireland

A growing risk of conflict associated with human-induced climatic changes that increase the frequency and severity of extreme weather and exacerbate natural resource inequalities is regarded by many scholars and policymakers as a critical security. But the degree to which climatic conditions may influence conflict is heavily contested, with data shortages and the complexity of societal “pathways” that may connect climate to conflict presenting major barriers to research. Against this background, the CLIMCONFLICT project has examined the role of climate in violence and conflict in medieval Ireland from the fifth and seventeenth centuries. Key to this has been the investigation of statistical associations between extreme weather (drought, flood, cold) and historical violence and conflict. Follow-on objectives have included an examination of the complex pathways that may connect climate-related shocks to violence and conflict and how such pathways may have varied according to the prevailing socioeconomic contexts, as well as an examination of the ways that medieval Irish society attempted to mitigate instability arising from these shocks. To achieve these objectives, the project has drawn upon human and natural archives. These include Ireland’s rich record of medieval chronicles (known collectively as the “Irish Annals”) and natural archives such as Irish oak tree-rings that allow the identification of years experiencing extremes of wet and drought. These sources were complemented by polar ice-cores that allow the identification of historical explosive volcanic eruptions known to impact the Irish climate, often promoting severe cold. Major concluding actions have involved the dissemination of project results in oral and print venues, with further publications in-press. The project’s final intention is to further the development of novel methodologies that twin the information available from human and natural archives, and to further examine the generality of the climate-conflict links observed in medieval Ireland by studying other regions and eras.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

This project draws upon historical, palaeoclimatic, palaeoecological and archaeological records to examine the role of extreme weather in the occurrence of violence and conflict in medieval Ireland. The research is founded upon the Irish Annals, which preserve a detailed record of violence and conflict as chronicled by monastic scribes from the sixth to thirteenth centuries and, thereafter to the seventeenth century, by hereditary historians employed by the Irish nobility. The Irish oak tree-ring record provides a means of identifying years of extreme wetness and dryness, while Greenland ice-core records furnish evidence for major volcanic eruptions that often caused extreme cold. Combining these diverse sources affords an important opportunity to examine whether extreme weather meaningfully influenced violence and conflict in a complex agrarian society for over a millennium. To identify the mechanisms that may link extreme weather to violence and conflict, insights will be drawn from written sources such as the Irish law texts, hagiographical texts and bardic poetry. The rich record of weather extremes, societal impacts and coping mechanisms provided by the Irish Annals themselves will also be exploited. Climate-conflict linkages are also likely to be mediated by changing background socioeconomic and climatic conditions that promote varying societal resilience to extreme weather. Diverse palaeoclimatic, archaeological and palaeoecological evidence will thus be employed to track the often dramatic changes in Irish agricultural and military technology, in settlement and political structures, and in average precipitation and temperatures, experienced across this long period of Irish history.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD, OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN · DublinКоординаторИрландия