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1 online resource (217 p.) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Maps -- Tables -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Conclusion -- 1. The destruction of the city in the interpretation of the 13th-century East Slavic letopises -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Primary sources -- Secondary literature -- 2. On the beneficial effects of storms: Examples from Hanseatic towns -- I -- II -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Primary sources -- Secondary literature -- 3. The Prague plague of 1380: Catastrophe and normality -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Primary sources: -- Secondary literature: |
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4. The novel findings about the Hussite's warfares in the Gdańsk/Danzig surrounding in the late summer of 1433 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Primary sources -- Unprinted -- Secondary literature -- 5. 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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Primary sources -- Secondary literature -- 6. 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 -- Notes |
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The position of the town in the power structures of the Duchy of Głogów -- Reformulation of the power climate -- the crises of 1488 and 1493 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Primary sources -- Secondary literature -- 10. Catastrophe as opportunity: Fire of Banská Bystrica (Neusohl) on 10 April 1500 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Archival sources -- Secondary literature -- 11. Prague in flames: Fire and conflagrations in the Prague conurbation from the Middle Ages to the threshold of the Modern Era -- The earliest anti-fire regulations and statutes in Prague |
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Fires in the Prague conurbation in the Middle Ages -- The magnitude and true impact of fires in Prague from the building history and history perspectives -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Primary sources -- Secondary literature -- 12. Natural disasters and crises in Silesian medieval chronicles -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Primary sources -- Secondary literature -- 13. The fire of Lviv in 1527: A great loss or a great Renaissance? -- The fire: Its outbreak and course -- Damage caused by the fire -- Restoration of the city -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Primary sources -- Secondary literature |
| Summary |
Covering areas in today's Ukraine, Poland, Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia and Slovakia, this book studies the impact of both natural and human-inflicted disasters on pre-modern towns |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography -- Primary sources -- Unprinted sources -- Secondary works -- 7. Did epidemics affect lives?: The case of late medieval Gdańsk (Danzig) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Primary sources -- Secondary literature -- Internet -- 8. Death, fire, and debt: Impact on the society and economy of late medieval Warsaw -- Credit market -- Real estate market -- Migration -- Authority -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Primary sources -- Secondary literature -- 9. A time of catastrophes and humiliations: Lower Silesian Głogów at the end of the Middle Ages |
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14. Bankruptcy as a family disaster?: Business practices of Christian and Jewish merchants in Early Modern Prague |
| Subject |
Cities and towns, Medieval -- Europe, Eastern
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Disasters -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- To 1500
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Cities and towns, Medieval.
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Disasters.
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Eastern Europe.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Możejko, Beata
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Nodl, Martin
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| ISBN |
9781000958645 |
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1000958647 |
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