Estudos Medievais

In the sixth episode of the Mundus series, Estudos Medievais welcomes Cormac Ó Gráda, professor emeritus of University College Dublin, to talk about his speciality: famines throughout history. Throughout the episode, Prof Ó Gráda talks about how we can define and quantify the famines of the past, what people died of during these periods, their demographic and social impact, as well as some of the main explanations for their occurrence. Participants ⁠Cormac Ó Gráda⁠ José Francisco Sanches Fonseca Staff members Carolina⁠ Santos (edition) Cecília Silva (edition) Diego Pereira (writer)⁠⁠ Eric Cyon (edition) ⁠⁠Gabriel Cordeiro (illustrator) ⁠⁠Isabela Silva (writer)⁠ ⁠José Fonseca (writer)⁠⁠ Marina Sanchez (writer) ⁠⁠Rafael Bosch (writer) ⁠⁠Sara Oderdenge (writer) Bibliographic recommendations ALFANI, Guido; Ó GRÁDA, Cormac (Org.). Famine in European History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. DE ZWARTE, Ingrid. The Hunger Winter. Fighting Famine in the Occupied Netherlands, 1944-1945. Cambridge: Cam