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

Inhalt

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.