1st Edition
Coping on the Edge in Premodern Central Europe Disaster, Conflict and Frontier, 15th–18th Centuries
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Preface
Introduction
Nada Zečević, Suzana Simon and Gerhard Jaritz
Chapter 1
Perceiving and Disseminating God’s Wrath in Late Medieval Society
Gerhard Jaritz
Chapter 2
Threatened by Nature and Humans: Social Response to Disasters in Medieval Zagreb and Its County
Suzana Simon
2.1. Introduction
2.2. The Borderland: Space, Nature, and Society
2.2.1 Geography and Borders
2.2.2 The Ottoman Factor
2.2.3 Social Composition
2.2.4 Nature as Both an Asset and a Threat
2.3. Urban Disasters and Social Responses
2.3.1 Fortifications as Protection Against War and Epidemic
2.3.2 Fire: Accident, Crime and Political Weapon
2.3.3 Public Health, Hospitals, and Disease Control
2.3.4 Cemeteries and Places of Remembrance
2.4. Rural and Noble Responses to Disaster
2.4.1. Poor’s Plots
2.4.2. Deserted and Desolated Plots
2.4.3. Plots under Water
2.4.4. Plots Deserted Due to Famine
2.4.5. Newcomers in the County
2.5. Management of Disasters before the Early Modern Period
Chapter 3
Nada Zečević
3.1. Introduction: People, Environment and Migration on Hungary’s Southern Border in Late Medieval and Early Modern Period (15th – 18th c.)
3.2. The Turks, the Plague and Other Agents of Disaster: Ideologies and Hierarchies of Disaster at Hungary’s Southern Border in Late Medieval and Early Modern Period (15th–18th c.)
3.3. Between Coping and Management: Mutual and Divergent Anti-Disaster Practices of Balkan Émigrés and Their Hosts in Premodern Hungary
3. 4. Calamity as a Common Ground?: Disasters and Social Relations of Balkan Émigrés in Premodern Hungary
3.5. Disaster on the Move: Conclusion
Conclusion
Nada Zečević, Suzana Simon and Gerhard Jaritz
Selected Bibliography
Index
Biography
Nada Zečević is Assistant Professor of Central and South-East Europe and the Mediterranean at the Department of History, University of Zagreb, Croatia. An alumna of the Central European University in Budapest (Ph.D. in Medieval Studies, 2004), she focuses on the region’s historical societies, migrations and interpretation of its premodern past.
Suzana Simon (née Miljan) is Senior Researcher with the Institute of Historical and Social Sciences, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Art. With a PhD from the University of Zagreb (2015), her research focus is on social, political and legal history and source editions of medieval Slavonia and Hungary.
Gerhard Jaritz is Professor Emeritus of Medieval Studies at Central European University, Vienna. His research is focused on social and cultural history as well as on history of daily life of the late Middle Ages.
