A richly illustrated nonfiction book on the history of climate change in Europe. Two perspectives, a unique picture-text volume: Two leading experts, a historian and a climatologist, collaboratively create a new standard work on climate history. It provides an overview of the relationship between climatic and societal developments over the last 1000 years. For the first time, a historian well-versed in climate history and a climatologist with a flair for climate history have worked closely together on this book. It offers a unique combination of climate reconstructions based on documentary data in their human historical context and temporally high-resolution analyses of climate and glacier history. This book clearly demonstrates how climate changes over many centuries have impacted the environment and people in Europe, providing important lessons for the future.