Essays about: "medieval crisis"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words medieval crisis.
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1. Identifying and Situating the Medieval Ragundaskogen: A Tale of Forest, Fish and Farmers
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historiaAbstract : In several medieval written sources an area called Ragundaskogen (Eng: Ragunda Forest) is documented in eastern Jämtland. The references in the sources are general and lack specific information about location, meaning and the extent of this area. READ MORE
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2. Historical land use in Scandinavia and its influence on carbon storage in soil and peat in the boreal landscape
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskapAbstract : The history of land utilization in Scandinavia is characterized by two major periods of open landscape. The first one temporal ranged from cal. AD 0-500 and the second one ranged from cal. AD 1200-1900 including the medieval crisis in Scandinavia. READ MORE
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3. How do sovereign debt yields respond to credit rating announcements
University essay from IHH, Economics, Finance and StatisticsAbstract : The concept of asymmetric information is probably best described by medieval idiom to buy a pig in a poke or to buy a cat in a sack, and is a long standing issue in a market economy. A solution to this predicament, is thought to be an objective third party certifier who would provide true information for the market participants. READ MORE
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4. Framtidens begravningsplatser : en historisk tillbakablick, dagssituationen och visioner för framtidens gestaltningsuttryck
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : The purpose of this article is partly to find out how the burial grounds are used today and the needs of its visitors, but also to develop the character and expression of future burial grounds. My suggestions focus on burial grounds without religious attributes; something that, according to the burial law (Begravningslagen, 1990:1144), the manager of the burial ground is ordered to obey. READ MORE
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5. Öjingsvallen vid sjön Öjingen : en pollenanalytisk studie av en fäbodvall i Ängersjö, Hälsingland
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Ecology and ManagementAbstract : By using pollen analysis and 14C-dating, the history of vegetation and land use at the old shieling place (Sw: fäbodställe) Öjingsvallen in Ängersjö parish, central Sweden, was studied. The aim of the study was to answer the following questions: 1) When was Öjingsvallen established as a shieling place? 2) What was the land use at Öjingsvallen? 3) Was the use of Öjingsvallen as a shieling place affected by the agricultural crisis in the 14th and 15th centuries? 4) Is there any relation between the establishment and land use of Öjingsvallen as a shieling place and the historically known increase in the number of shieling sites known to have taken place in the 16th and 17th centuries? 5) Was the use of Öjingsvallen as a shieling place affected by the iron production in the area? According to the study, Öjingsvallen was probably established as a shieling place during the period A. READ MORE
