Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Author's note -- Warmth and its aftermath : Medieval warm period -- Great famine -- Cooling begins : Climatic seesaw -- Storms, cod and doggers -- Vast peasantry -- End of the "full world" : Specter of hunger -- War against the glaciers -- "More like winter than summer" -- Dearth and revolution -- Year without a summer -- Ghorta mor -- Modern warm period : Warmer greenhouse -- Notes -- Index.