IMC 2008: Sessions
Session 714: Perceiving and Managing Floods in the 14th Century
Tuesday 8 July 2008, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Interdisciplinary Centre for Medieval Studies, Universität Salzburg |
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| Organiser: | Christian Rohr, Fachbereich Geschichte, Universität Salzburg |
| Moderator/Chair: | Christian Pfister, Historisches Institut, Universität Bern |
| Paper 714-a | Floods in 14th-Century Hungary: The Evidence from Charters and Other Written Sources (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Economics - General, Social History |
| Paper 714-b | The Disastrous Flood of November 1333 in Florence: Reconstruction, Perception, Reaction (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Urban, Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities, Social History |
| Paper 714-c | Floods and Famine: Perception, Management, and Long-Time Consequences of Floods in 14th-Century Austria (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - General, Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities |
| Abstract | People living along rivers in the Middle Ages had frequently been afflicted with floods. So, people had to build up a 'culture of flood management', when facing these floods. This session deals with specific perceptions and strategies of flood management in the first half of the 14th century. This period is commonly seen as an era of natural disasters: the flood of 1316 was the beginning of several years of famine in many parts of Europe, the reports by Giovanni Villani and others on the flood of 1333 in Tuscany give us a vivid insight in perceptions and interpretations of floods in general, and the floods of 1342 in Western and Central Europe are often seen as 'millennium flood'. The papers cover Hungary, the Eastern Alpine regions, and Tuscany. |