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The Frigid Golden Age book cover
Friday, April 6, 2018 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

A Frigid Golden Age: Coping with Climate Change in the Seventeenth Century

Beginning in the thirteenth century, natural forces cooled Earth’s climate in a “Little Ice Age” that reached its chilliest point in the seventeenth century and, according to many scholars, destabilized societies around the world. Yet the precocious economy, unusual environment, and dynamic intellectual culture of the Dutch Republic in its seventeenth-century Golden Age allowed it to thrive as neighbouring societies unravelled.