Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Patel, Sandhya
• Chiari, Sophie

Titel

The Writing of Natural Disaster in Europe, 1500-1826: Events in Excess

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Cham: Springer International Publishing AG

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This book explores reactions to and representations of natural disasters in early modern Europe. The contributors illustrate how the cultural production of the period - in manuals, treatises, sermons, travelogues and fiction - grappled with environmental catastrophe. Crucially, they interrogate how people in the early modern era rationalized and mediated the threat of events like plagues, great frosts, storms, floods and earthquakes. A vital contribution to environmental history, this book highlights the parallels between early modern responses to natural disaster and climate anxiety in our own era.