What is the great Famine?

Answer 1

The Great Famine was a large scale famine that struck Northern Europe early in the fourteenth century. It caused millions of deaths over an extended number of years and marks a end to an earlier period of growth and prosperity from the eleventh to thirteenth centuries. Starting with bad weather in the spring of 1315, universal crop failures lasted through 1316 until the harvest in 1317. It was a period marked by extremes of crime, disease, mass death and even cannibalism and infanticide.