Agriculture during the medieval time was a very complex system. The weather played a major role in the harvest. A week of unpleasant rain in May, followed by an abnormal cold, humid summer might have thrown off the summer harvest, resulting in a shortfall of food. Due to a surplus left over from the previous harvest, no one went hungry. But after a couple of bad harvests, the surplus began to run out. This happened …showed first 75 words of 1713 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1713 total…Since the Year 1000. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971. Tierney, Brian, and Painter, Sidney. Western Europe in the Middle Ages 300-1475. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1983. Thesis Statement: The Famine reared its ugly head, in part, caused by years of unfavorable harvest and inadequate crops, but it was also complicated by a plague that seemed to thrive on human starvation. I. Introduction A. People B. Nature          II. 1043 A. High food prices B. Famine spread C. Bad Weat