Walka z pożarami na ziemiach polskich 1018-1795. Przegląd dokumentów źródłowych
Fire Protection in the Polish Lands in the Years 1018-1795. A Review of Source Documents

Summary/Abstract: Based on source texts and historical studies, the article reviews the documents illustrating the history of fire protection in Poland in the period up to 1795. The review covers documents hitherto unknown or, for unknown reasons, omitted in historical studies (parliamentary constitutions, sejmik lauds, diaries, press, poems and, very rare, iconographic representations). It is also an attempt at a polemic with the works of some contemporary researchers of the Polish history of fire prevention. The study also contains some statistical data related to the fires of the Polish Middle Ages, presented more extensively in the author’s work “Medieval fires - chronicles and records”.

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