KOMÁRKOVÁ, Hana. 12. Natural disasters and crises in Silesian medieval chronicles. In Michaela Antonín-Malaníková, Beata Możejko, Martin Nodl. Pre-modern Towns at the Times of Catastrophes East Central Europe in a Comparative Perspective. 1st ed. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023, p. 159-170. ISBN 978-1-032-34737-0. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003323587.
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Original name 12. Natural disasters and crises in Silesian medieval chronicles
Authors KOMÁRKOVÁ, Hana (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition 1. vyd. London, Pre-modern Towns at the Times of Catastrophes East Central Europe in a Comparative Perspective, p. 159-170, 12 pp. 2023.
Publisher Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Other information
Original language English
Type of outcome Chapter(s) of a specialized book
Field of Study 60101 History
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form printed version "print"
WWW Routledge website (e-shop)
RIV identification code RIV/47813059:19240/23:A0001172
Organization unit Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
ISBN 978-1-032-34737-0
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003323587
Keywords in English Medieval Chronicles; Natural Disasters; Silesia; Towns
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Hana Komárková, Ph.D., učo 27664. Changed: 25/10/2023 22:54.
Abstract
The chapter is focusing on the analysis of late medieval Silesian narrative sources from the urban environment (e.g. Geschichte der Stadt Breslau written by the Wroclaw scribe Peter Eschenloer, Chronicon Ratiboriense, Annales Glogovienses by Caspar Borgeni, etc.) from the perspective of natural disasters, their portrayal, context, and consequences. In addition to the natural disasters themselves (their categorisation) and the crises caused by them, emphasis is placed on their symbolic utilisation in the work of Silesian medieval chroniclers. Regardless of the historical period, natural disaster is and always used to be a social situation. Narrative sources, though often unreliable when it comes to accurate dating or intentionally biased, are still keeping their value when it comes to human experience. After a thorough analysis, they can provide us with a social reflection of natural disasters and extreme weather in the past, the way other types of historical sources can not. Even the symbolic utilisation of weather references can tell us something about the author's experience. Moreover, in combination with natural archives, they can help us to complete the picture of climatic situations in the past.
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