Several late Quaternary studies have recorded cold and disturbed climates centred during
the mid-first millennium AD and discussed these conditions under the term 'Dark Ages Cold …

Recent decades have seen the rapid expansion of scholarship that identifies societal
responses to past climatic fluctuations. This fast-changing scholarship, which was recently …

Volcanic eruptions contribute to climate variability, but quantifying these contributions has
been limited by inconsistencies in the timing of atmospheric volcanic aerosol loading …

Climate variations influenced the agricultural productivity, health risk, and conflict level of
preindustrial societies. Discrimination between environmental and anthropogenic impacts …

Growing scientific evidence from modern climate science is loaded with implications for the
environmental history of the Roman Empire and its successor societies. The written and …

Volcanism is a natural climate forcing causing short‐term variations in temperatures.
Histories of volcanic eruptions are needed to quantify their role in climate variability and …

The interplay between smart urban technologies and city development is a relatively
uncharted territory. Technology and the City aims to fill that gap, exploring the growing …

The popular notion of social collapse consequent on natural catastrophe is here elegantly
disentangled in a study of the dark summer of AD 536. Leaving aside the question of its …

The eastern Roman Empire was the largest state in western Eurasia in the sixth century.
Only a century later, it was a fraction of its former size. Surrounded by enemies, ravaged by …

The threat of future global warming has generated a major interest in quantifying past
climate variability on centennial and millennial time-scales. However, palaeoclimatological …