Kateřina Bobková-Valentová
Mgr., Ph.D.
International project
HandEm – Handling Emergencies. Italian and Bohemian Urban and Rural Communities (16th–18th centuries)
Provider: Czech Academy of Sciences
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Project duration:
2025–2027
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Project ID: CNR-2510
The cities of Early Modern Italy and Bohemia differ a lot. However, only few have managed to avoid emergencies such as epidemics, floods, fires, wars or famines. The way communities coped with a disaster and what prevention measures they adopted served as key inspiration. These events also intensified already existing interactions between Italy and Bohemia. The project aims to explore and put to test three questions:1) what role political, spiritual and economic elites played in the emergency management process in both countries;2) how intensive the transfer of information and knowledge related to disaster coping between Italy and Bohemia was and 3) what role migration from northern Italy and religious orders' internal communication with the Roman centre played in this process.
