Piotr Guzowski

TL;DR: Several ways in which a consilience between the historical sciences and the natural sciences, including attention to even distant historical pasts, can deepen contemporary understanding of environmental change and its effects on human societies are suggested.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors used a big data palaeoecology approach, starting from palynological data, to evaluate the scale of the Black Death's mortality on a regional scale across Europe.

TL;DR: The research revealed a rapid critical land-use transition in the late Middle Ages and its consequences on the peatland ecosystem, and revealed the surprisingly fast rate of how feudal economy eliminated pristine nature from the studied area and created novel anthroecosystems.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors focused on eutrophication, which resulted in the transition from rich fen to poor fen conditions on the Kazanie fen (central Greater Poland, western Poland Central Europe).

TL;DR: The scale and geographical range of the Black Death in Central Europe, including the Kingdom of Poland, remains a matter of dispute as discussed by the authors , however, the outbreak of the plague in Western Europe coincided with the reign of King Casimir of the Piast dynasty, which is associated with Poland's extraordinarily successful modernization.