Pre-modern Towns at the Times of Catastrophes

Introduction 1. The destruction of the city in the interpretation of the thirteenth-century East Slavic letopises 2. On the Beneficial Effects of Storms. Examples from Hanseatic Towns 3. The Prague Plague of 1380: Catastrophe and Normality 4. The novel findings about the Hussite's warfares in the Gdansk/Danzig surrounding in the late summer of 1433 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 6. The 1442 fire of the Crane in the Main Town of Gdansk. Legal and financial issues connected with maintaining fortifications in the great Prussian city in the late Middle Ages 7. Did epidemics affect lives? The case of late medieval Gdansk (Danzig) 8. Death, fire and debt. Impact on the society and economy of late medieval Warsaw 9. A Time of Catastrophes and Humiliations: Lower Silesian Glogow at the end of the Middle Ages 10. Catastrophe as opportunity. Fire of Banska Bystrica (Neusohl) on April 10, 1500 11. Prague in Flames: Fire and Conflagrations in the Prague Conurbation from the Middle Ages to the Threshold of the Modern Era 12. Natural Disasters and Crises in Silesian Medieval Chronicles 13. The Fire of Lviv in 1527: A Great Loss or a Great Renaissance? 14. Bankruptcy as a family disaster? Business practices of Christian and Jewish merchants in Early Modern Prague