Pre-modern towns at the times of catastrophes : East Central Europe in a comparative perspective / edited by Michaela Antonín Malaníková, Beata Możejko, Martin Nodl.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Antonín Malaníková, Michaela, editor.

Możejko, Beata, editor.

Nodl, Martin, editor.

ProQuest ebook central

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns, Medieval--Europe, Eastern.

Cities and towns, Medieval.

Disasters--Europe, Eastern--History--To 1500.

Disasters.

Europe, Eastern--History.

Europe, Eastern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 200 pages) : illustrations, maps

Other Title:

East Central Europe in a comparative perspective

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Contents:

Introduction / Michaela Antonín Malaníková, Beata Możejko, Martin Nodl

The destruction of the city in the interpretation of the thirteenth-century East Slavic letopises / Jitka Komendová

On the beneficial effects of storms : examples from Hanseatic towns / Piotr Oliński

The Prague Plague of 1380 : catastrophe and normality / Martin Nodl

The novel findings about the Hussite's warfares in the Gdansk/Danzig surrounding in the late summer of 1433 / Piotr Samól

Jakub Holub and his relatives : on the life and economic strategies of the burghers of the Brno urban region in the first half of the 15th century / Jiří Doležel

The 1442 fire of the Crane in the Main Town of Gdańsk : legal and financial issues connected with maintaining fortifications in the great Prussian city in the late Middle Ages / Marcin Grulkowski

Did epidemics affect lives? : the case of late medieval Gdańsk (Danzig) / Beata Możejko

Death, fire and debt : Impact on the society and economy of late medieval Warsaw / Piotr Łozowski

A time of catastrophes and humiliations : Lower Silesian Głogów at the end of the Middle Ages / Petr Kozák

Catastrophe as opportunity : fire of Banská Bystrica (Neusohl) on April 10, 1500 / Milan Georgievski

Prague in flames : fire and conflagrations in the Prague Conurbation from the Middle Ages to the threshold of the modern era / Martin Musílek

Natural disasters and crises in Silesian medieval chronicles / Hana Komárková

The fire of Lviv in 1527 : a great loss or a great renaissance? / Bogdana Petryszak

Bankruptcy as a family disaster? : business practices of Christian and Jewish merchants in Early Modern Prague / Marie Buňatová.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 08, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Pre-modern towns at the times of catastrophe

ISBN:

9781003323587

1003323588

9781000958645

1000958647

Publisher Number:

40031901162

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.