Wooden buildings housed the majority of Swedish urban populations during the early modern era, but many of these buildings have disappeared as the result of fire, demolition, and modernisation. They were built during periods of urban transformation; disdained for their rural loo…
Wooden buildings housed the majority of Swedish urban populations during the early modern era, but many of these buildings have disappeared as the result of fire, demolition, and modernisation. They were built during periods of urban transformation; disdained for their rural loo…
Part I. Introduction -- An interdisciplinary approach / Per Lagerås -- Current knowledge on the late-medieval crisis / Per Lagerås -- Societal crisis and environmental change / Per Lagerås -- Part II. Empirical studies -- Abandonment, agricultural change and ecology / Per Lagerå…
In the mid-fourteenth century the Black Death ravaged Europe, leading to a dramatic population drop and social upheavals. Most of the research so far has been based on the study of written sources, and the dominating perspective has been the one of economic history. A different …
