Thomas Labbé

University of Burgundy | UB · Unité de Archéologie, Terre, Histoire, Sociétés (ARTéHIS)

Le « galant » est une boisson qui apparaît pour la première fois en 1383 parmi la gamme des produits élaborés dans les vignobles des ducs de Bourgogne à la fin du Moyen Âge. Cet article propose une relecture des sources qui évoquent le galant dans les comptes des closiers des domaines ducaux de Talant et de Chenôve, à proximité de Dijon, à la fin d...

Narrative evidence contained within historical documents and inscriptions provides an important record of climate variability for periods prior to the onset of systematic meteorological data collection. A common approach used by historical climatologists to convert such qualitative information into continuous quantitative proxy data is through the...

The cold/wet anomaly of the 1310s (“Dantean Anomaly”) has attracted a lot of attention from scholars, as it is commonly interpreted as a signal of the transition between the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA) and the Little Ice Age (LIA). The huge variability that can be observed during this decade, like the high interannual variability observed in the...

Evidence contained within historical documents and inscriptions provides an important record of climate variability for periods prior to the onset of systematic meteorological data collection. A common approach used by historical climatologists to convert such qualitative documentary evidence into continuous quantitative proxy data is through the g...

Abstract. The cold/wet anomaly of the 1310s ( Dantean anomaly ) has attracted a lot of attention from scholars, as it is commonly interpreted as a signal of the transition between the MCA and the LIA. The huge variability that can be observed during this decade, similarly with the high interannual variability observed in the 1340s, has been highlig...

This volume investigates environmental and political crises that occurred in Europe during the late Middle Ages and the early Modern Period, and considers their effects on people’s lives. At this time, the fragile human existence was imagined as a ‘Dance of Death’, where anyone, regardless of social status or age, could perish unexpectedly. This bo...

Les cépages émergent dans les sources à compter de la fin du Moyen Âge. En Bourgogne, les premières mentions de pinot accompagnent une évolution de la manière de nommer les vins. Dès le XIVe siècle, le vin de pinot exprime une qualité supérieure. Réservé aux élites, il est rare et donc cher. Il faut cependant modérer le rôle des ducs de Bourgogne d...

Records of grape harvest dates (GHDs) are the oldest and the longest continuous phenological data in Europe. However, many available series, including the well-known (Dijon) Burgundy series, are error prone because scholars so far have uncritically drawn the data from 19th century publications instead of going back to the archives. The GHDs from th...

Records of grape harvest dates (GHD) are the oldest and the longest continuous phenological data in Europe. However, many available series including the well-known (Dijon) Burgundy series are error prone, because scholars so far uncritically drew the data from nineteenth century publications instead of going back to the archives. The GHD from the f...

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Located along the meanders of the Doubs, the people of Chaussin had to deal with the particular impact of the river on their environment. Due to the impact of the Little Ice Age on water levels in the area, the Doubs sometimes had special floods, which frequently changed its course from the end of the fourteenth century. As a result, some lands wer...

The accounts of the cellar of the collegiate church of Notre-Dame of Beaune are almost continuously preserved from the end of the 14th century to the French Revolution of 1789. Until the year 1507 the canons themselves exploited a part of their domain, located mainly in the territory of the city of Beaune. This enables us to describe precisely the...

Climats is the technical term for portions of vineyards delimited and named according to specific wine qualities. They arose from the seventeenth century onwards as a specific terroir meaning in Burgundy. However, tradition still emphasizes the medieval actors of Burgundian viti-viniculture as dukes and monks as the determinants for the emergence o...

The heat waves of 2003 in Western Europe and 2010 in Russia, commonly labelled as rare climatic anomalies outside of previous experience, are often taken as harbingers of more frequent extremes in the global warming-influenced future. However, a recent reconstruction of spring-summer temperatures for WE resulted in the likelihood of significantly h...

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The heat waves of 2003 in Western Europe and 2010 in Russia, commonly labelled as rare climatic anomalies outside of previous experience, are often taken as harbingers of more frequent extremes in the global warming-influenced future. However, a recent Climatic Change (2014) 125:349-363 351 weather report sources originating from an area of 2 to 3...

The vineyard harvest dates serie (banns harvest) of Dijon was previously the longest known serie of this kind in the historic documentation (1385-1906). Since the 19th century, it is used as one of the major source for historic climatology. In a recent paper we have re-investigated this datas in the city archives of Dijon in order to clean up the s...

Reconnaître les fruits rouges du Chambolle, le sous-bois de Gevrey-Chambertin, la robustesse du Corton, le beurré du Meursault, etc...bref la typicité d'un vin à travers son appellation, apparaît comme un évidence chez l'amateur de vin de Bourgogne de nos jours. le discours oenologique nous apprend en effet que la géographie, la géologie, la climat...

The usage whereby a wine is very strictly associated to its place of production, its « climate », defines the Burgundy winegrowing area today, but was born only in the xvIIIth century. The history of the commercial regulation of the « Beaune wine » from the Middle-Ages on does give us some clues as to the basic motives for this key process in the f...

The opening date of the grape harvest (banns harvest) is for long known as an important indicator to reconstruct past climate, specially concerning noninstrumental periods. Very famous, the longest banns harvest series in the world belongs to the municipal archives of Dijon (France, Burgundy), and covers, almost without hiatus, a period between 138...

La date d'ouverture des bans de vendange est depuis longtemps considérée comme un indicateur de première importance pour l'histoire du climat. Les archives de la ville de Dijon possèdent la plus longue série de ce type connue à ce jour dans le monde, permettant de couvrir une période allant de 1385 à 1906 sans grandes lacunes. Très célèbre, l'établ...

Tonitrus hyemalis : studying and forecasting the weather in the thirteenth-century chronicles of Matthew Paris and John of Oxnead. Matthew Paris and John of Oxnead, two English Benedictines of the thirteenth century, demonstrated in their chronicles a wide interest for natural phenomena, especially for the one they called “tonitrus hyemalis” (winte...

On textual knowledge and the observation of natural phenomena : the world system in the 13th Century in the chonicle of Wierum in Holland The chronicle written successively by the two Prémontré Friesian abbots Emon and Menko de Wierum, covering the period 1204-1273, is rich in information for those interested in observing natural phenomena in the M...