La Piccola ERA GLACIALE che ha dato inizio al MEDIOEVO

A letter by Cassiodorus, who lived in the 6th century AD, describes strange weather phenomena for 536 AD. Regarded for so long as one of many ancient accounts of prodigious events, today it has led instead to the rediscovery of a period of great cold in the early Middle Ages, the Late Antique Little Ice Age. FULL PLAYLIST:    • Medioevo - Storia e Leggende   Follow me also on X (Twitter):   / artifacta_x   If you liked this video, put "like", subscribe to the channel and activate the notifications to not miss the next ones! Thanks for the support! - - - - - - - - - - - - Primary sources and insights: Annales Cambriae, 10th century AD. Cassiodorus, Variae XXV, 537 AD (less likely 538) Michael the Syrian, Chronicle, late 12th century Procopius of Caesarea, Ιστορια, 553 AD. Büntgen U. et al, Cooling and societal change during the Late Antique Little Ice Age from 536 to around 660 AD, 2016. Harper K., The fate of Rome: Climate, disease and the end of an empire, 2017 Larsen L. B. et al, New ice core evidence for a volcanic cause of the A.D. 536 dust veil, 2008 Smith V. C. et al, The magnitude and impact of the Tierra Blanca Joven eruption of A.D. 431 in Ilopango, El Salvador, 2020 Stothers R. B., The Great Tambora Eruption in 1815 and Its Aftermath, 1984 Wirakusumah A. D., Rachmat H., Impact of the Tambora eruption of 1815 on global climate change, 2017 Zonneveld K., Climate change, society and pandemic diseases in Roman Italy between 200 BC and 600 BC, 2024 - - - - - - - - - - - - Chapters: 00:00 A mysterious letter 01:50 Tambora 05:33 The other sources 08:40 The Late Antique Little Ice Age 11:53 The cold that started the Middle Ages - - - - - - - - - - - - Background music: “Unsafe Roads,” ‘Dark Hollows’ and ‘Marked’ by Alexander Nakarada (www.creatorchords.com) Licensed under a Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...