Building the cathedrals of Europe... the climate factor
Some of the answers to the complexities of the climate system are given in my recently published book
Fifteen
shades of climate... the fall of the weather dice and the butterfly effect. The following are extracts are from pages 203- 207.
When I was in Canada about 30 years ago, I listened to a lecture about Medieval Warming, the building of the Gothic Cathedrals and the freemasons. It appears that there was no theological reason why the cathedrals were built at that time but there is an interesting link between the warmth of Europe in the 11th to 15th centuries, the wine of England, and the freemasons and their lodges.