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Towards a fire history of European cities (late Middle Ages to late nineteenth century)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2018

DAVID GARRIOCH
DAVID GARRIOCH*
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School of Philosophical, Historical, and International Studies, 20 Chancellor's Walk, Monash University, Australia, 3800
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Abstract:

Fires are often seen as a constant in early modern European towns, changing only in the modern era when inflammable building materials replaced wood. This article argues that the incidence, nature and risk of fire shifted repeatedly over time. Fire danger was determined not only by building materials but also by forms of construction, by the everyday uses people made of flame and by wider factors such as climatic variation and shifts in world trade and consumer demand. It was influenced by urban social and political change, including the way governments and populations responded to the risk. Responses to new fire dangers in turn helped change the way urban government functioned.

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Urban History , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , May 2019 , pp. 202 - 224
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Footnotes

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I wish to thank Andrew May, Susie Protschky and the Urban History reviewers for invaluable suggestions on earlier drafts; the many helpful archivists in London, Paris, Vienna, Venice and Stockholm; Jana Verhoeven, Georgie Arnott, Jess O'Leary, Veronica Langberg and Amanda McLeod for research assistance; seminar audiences at Monash University, the University of Sheffield and the EHESS in Paris; and the Australian Research Council for funding that made the research possible.

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