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Professor CHRISTOPHER LOVELUCK's Outputs (4)

The Impact of a Six‐Year Climate Anomaly on the “Spanish Flu” Pandemic and WWI (2020)
Journal Article
More, A. F., Loveluck, C. P., Clifford, H., Handley, M. J., Korotkikh, E. V., Kurbatov, A. V., McCormick, M., & Mayewski, P. A. (2020). The Impact of a Six‐Year Climate Anomaly on the “Spanish Flu” Pandemic and WWI. GeoHealth, 4(9), Article e2020GH000277. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GH000277

The H1N1 “Spanish influenza” pandemic of 1918–1919 caused the highest known number of deaths recorded for a single pandemic in human history. Several theories have been offered to explain the virulence and spread of the disease, but the environmental... Read More about The Impact of a Six‐Year Climate Anomaly on the “Spanish Flu” Pandemic and WWI.

From 'House of Caves' to nexus of central England: Nottingham, c. AD 650-1250 - Future Research Directions’ (2020)
Journal Article
LOVELUCK, C., Davies, G., Knight, D., & Lomax, S. (2020). From 'House of Caves' to nexus of central England: Nottingham, c. AD 650-1250 - Future Research Directions’. Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire, 123, 55-75

Nottingham, as one of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw, a key strategic pre-Conquest borough, and the most important royal governmental hub in central England by the time of the Angevin kings, from Henry II to John (1154–1216), is a city with a fasci... Read More about From 'House of Caves' to nexus of central England: Nottingham, c. AD 650-1250 - Future Research Directions’.

Chronology and Time: Northern European Coastal Settlements and Societies, c. 500-1050 (2020)
Book Chapter
Loveluck, C. (2020). Chronology and Time: Northern European Coastal Settlements and Societies, c. 500-1050. In I. Gaskell, & S. A. Carter (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture (491-512). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199341764.013.31

This contribution uses material culture, textual sources and associated social practices to explore how cycles of time and memory influenced the development of coastal societies and their expressions of identity in northwest Europe, between c. 500 an... Read More about Chronology and Time: Northern European Coastal Settlements and Societies, c. 500-1050.

Alpine ice and the annual political economy of the Angevin Empire, from the death of Thomas Becket to Magna Carta, c. AD 1170–1216 (2020)
Journal Article
Loveluck, C. P., More, A. F., Spaulding, N. E., Clifford, H., Handley, M. J., Hartman, L., Korotkikh, E. V., Kurbatov, A. V., Mayewski, P. A., Sneed, S. B., & McCormick, M. (2020). Alpine ice and the annual political economy of the Angevin Empire, from the death of Thomas Becket to Magna Carta, c. AD 1170–1216. Antiquity, 94(374), 473-490. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2019.202

High-resolution analysis of the ice core from Colle Gnifetti, Switzerland, allows yearly and sub-annual measurement of pollution for the period of highest lead production in the European Middle Ages, c. AD 1170–1220. Here, the authors use atmospheric... Read More about Alpine ice and the annual political economy of the Angevin Empire, from the death of Thomas Becket to Magna Carta, c. AD 1170–1216.