Cow Trials, Climate Change, and the Causes of Violence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12450985 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Keith Pluymers (0000-0001-9729-3169, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 287-309 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-19 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1084-5453 • E-ISSN: 1930-8892 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1093/envhis/emz095 |
| OpenAlex | W3007898296 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 26 |
In 1641, according to the vicar Thomas Johnson, Irish rebels in Mayo, in “meere hatred and derision of the English,” tried a group of English cattle for unspecified charges. They were convicted and executed. Many historians have pointed to this striking event as an example of the deep hatred underlying popular violence in the rebellion. The trials, however, were merely the most spectacular iteration of long-standing conflicts over transformations in animal husbandry between the Munster Plantation in the 1580s and the rebellion of the 1640s. The new pastoralism that emerged during these decades threatened traditional practices and landscapes while creating new vulnerabilities to poor weather and economic downturns. The combination of economic crises and harsh weather associated with the Little Ice Age exposed these vulnerabilities. The cow trials show that environmental forces shaped the 1641 Rebellion but demonstrate that historians assessing the impacts of climate and weather must attend to the social and economic contexts that produce vulnerability
Biology · Climate change · Geography · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Tree-ring climate responses · Ecology
Climate Change and the Course of Global History
Making Ireland British, 1580-1650
The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Adaptation to Climate Change
European Seasonal and Annual Temperature Variability, Trends, and Extremes Since 1500
Irish Manuscripts Commission
Constructing Discord
The Great Deer Massacre
Early Modern Ireland
Improvement and Epistemologies of Landscape in Seventeenth-Century English Forest Enclosure
The Irish Cattle Bills
The Economic Crisis of 1619 to 1623
The Trade Crisis of the Early 1620's and English Economic Thought
Dearth and the English revolution
Credit-Money as the Philosopher's Stone
Famine as agricultural catastrophe
The Trade Depression of the Early 1620's
Animal Trials
King Philip's Herds
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