Aftermath of the Great European Famine

Timeline

1. 1318–1325England and Northern Europe · British IslesYears of rain after the Great Famine and livestock plagues (such as rinderpest among cattle and sheep) kept crop and pasture yields low for a long period; tax and manorial records in England and elsewhere show agricultural recovery far slower than population expectations.
2. 1330–1332France and the Low Countries · FranceLocalized harvest failures and trade disruptions again pushed up grain prices, burdening urban poor and rural tenants; signs of unrest appeared in Flanders and elsewhere, with manorial and urban archives recording tax resistance and disputes over grain hoarding.
3. 1333–1340Central Europe and the northern Mediterranean coast · EuropePopulation had not yet fully recovered, land consolidation intensified, and war financing (such as the Anglo-French conflict) proceeded in parallel, leaving Europe's socioeconomic system highly vulnerable on the eve of the Black Death; historians often regard this period as a link in the chain of the fourteenth-century crisis.