The Little Ice Age Quotes

“The heyday of the Norse, which lasted roughly from A.D. 800 to about 1200, was not only a byproduct of such social factors as technology, overpopulation and opportunism. Their great conquests and explorations took place during a period of unusually mild and stable weather in northern Europe called the Medieval Warm Period-some of the warmest four centuries of the previous 8,000 years.”
― Brian M. Fagan, The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850

“In the eighth century, the Catholic Church created a huge market for salted cod and herring by allowing the devout to consume fish on Fridays, the day of Christ's crucifixion, during the forty days of Lent and on major feast days.”
― Brian M. Fagan, The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850

“Self aggrandizement is the most worthy and agreeable of sovereigns' occupations," the king wrote to the Marquis de Villars in 1688.7”
― Brian M. Fagan, The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850

“Like the Norse conquests, cathedrals too are a consequence of a global climatic phenomenon, an enduring legacy of the Medieval Warm Period.”
― Brian M. Fagan, The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850