An international team, led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), has successfully dated some of the largest eruptions in history by analyzing medieval texts. While studying the night sky, medieval monks inadvertently documented some of the most significant volcanic eruptions in history. A global tea
Medieval monks’ chronicles of lunar eclipses helped researchers date some of history’s largest volcanic eruptions, uncovering information about an extremely volcanically active period that may have triggered the Little Ice Age. The team analyzed hundreds of annals, revealing that the darkest lunar eclipses occurred within a year of major eruptions, which contributed to global cooling, agricultural impacts, and climate anomalies.
, utilized information from 12th and 13th-century European and Middle Eastern chronicles, as well as ice core and tree ring data, to precisely determine the timing of some of the largest volcanic eruptions ever witnessed. Published in the journal, their findings reveal fresh insights about an exceptionally volcanic era in Earth’s past, which some believe contributed to the onset of the Little Ice Age— a long interval of cooling that saw the advance of European glaciers.
Illumination from the late 14th or early 15th century, which portrays two individuals observing a lunar eclipse. It features the words «La lune avant est eclipsee», «The moon is eclipsed» in English. Credit: gallica.bnf.
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