Floods and Long-Term Water-Level Changes in Medieval Hungary

The book provides an overview of the floods and major hydrological changes that occurred in the medieval Hungarian kingdom (covering the majority of the Carpathian Basin) between 1000 and 1500 AD. The analysis was based on contemporary documentary evidence presented for the first time and the results of archaeological and scientific investigations. Beyond the evidence on individual flood events, the book includes a comprehensive overview of short-, medium-, and long-term changes detected in a hydrologically sensitive environment during the transition period between the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age. It also discusses the possible causes (including climate and human intervention) and the consequences for the physical and human environment, namely the related hydro-morphological changes, short- and long-term social response, and human perception issues.

List of contents

Introduction: floods and water-level fluctuations in medieval (Central-)Europe.- An environmental background: floods, modern hydrology and medieval environment.- Long-term hydrological changes based on sedimentary and archaeological evidence.- Documentary sources and methodology.- Catalogue of floods in medieval Hungary 1001-1500: analysis of individual flood reports.- Floods in medieval Hungary: general analysis, comparisons and conclusions.

Summary

Offers a detailed, step-by-step overview of historical flood analysis, from original sources to reconstruction values 
Includes exceptionally high-quality, contemporary and legal-administrative sources that have never before been applied in historical flood research 
Presents comprehensive new evidence and results for the first Little Ice Age 

Reveals an unknown story of medieval European floods and provides new tools for a better understanding of large-scale European (and Northern Hemispheric) processes

Product details

• Authors: Andrea Kiss
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2019
• EAN: 9783319388625
• ISBN: 978-3-31-938862-5
• No. of pages: 896
• Dimensions: 169 mm x 55 mm x 241 mm
• Weight: 1538 g
• Illustrations: XIX, 896 p.
• Series: Springer Water; Springer Water
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences; B, History, Naturkatastrophen, Climate Change, Meteorologie und Klimatologie (Klimaforschung), Water, Physische Geographie und Topographie, Historiography, Earth and Environmental Science, Hydrology, Hydrology & the hydrosphere, Hydrology/Water Resources, Earth System Sciences, Physical geography, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Physical geography & topography, Natural disasters, Natural Hazards, History, general, Physical geography and topography