At 04:07 PM 9/22/98 -0500, you wrote:
>I need a quick answer to a question that I'd otherwise have to research by
>getting a couple books from Inter-Library Loan, and I haven't the time --
>so pardon my laziness by posing it here:
>
>What is the date (or do we know the date) of the famine Ralph Glaber tells
>about with such relish in _Historiae_ 4.10 ff? The previous paragraph
>notes the deaths of several clebrities in the year 1033, but the account
>of the famine proper begins with an unhelpful "sequenti itaque tempore."
according to him it was 3 years long, from 1030-33. we have corroborating,
but not chronologically specific evidence on the length of it from both the
miracles of st. benedict (loire valley) and ademar of chabannes (aquitaine).
rlandes
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