Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: Epidemics in Gdańsk in the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries: Addenda et corrigenda The article presents selected sources concerning the dates of occurrence and the number of victims of the epidemics in Gdańsk in the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries. Among the sources are the data published by the municipal authorities of that time and early modern chronicles. They are juxtaposed with modern historical research. On this basis, the periods when Gdańsk was afflicted by plagues are determined with a high degree of probability and erroneous information that has been hitherto used the literature on the subject is indicated.
Source: Studia Historica Gedanensia
Author: Piotr Paluchowski
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4205329692