Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. The Impact of Natural Disasters on Economic Life in the Eastern Alps. The Case of the Salzach-Inn and Traun River Catchment Areas 1
5. Natural Disaster Prevention and Management in the Valais Alps from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century 31
6. Roads, Tolls and the Development of Ecclesiastical Institutions in the Alps (400–900) 43
7. Medieval Communication Networks in the Central Eastern Alps: Some Trend Lines 73
8. Across the Passes. Transport Structures and Markets in the Alpine Area of the Pre-Industrial Period 89
9. Structural Changes in Agriculture and Pastoralism in the Northern European Alps from Savoy to Vorarlberg (from the Eleventh to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century) 111
10. Churches, Settlements and Resources in the Western Alps (Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries) 129
11. Italian Merchants and Traders North of the Alps: Commercial Practices and Social Strategies 141
12. The Towns in the Alps: A Missed Protagonist 159
13. Oeconomia Alpium: A Concept Takes Shape 171