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, ...
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Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: Elucidating Events in Excess in Early Modern Manuals, Pamphlets and Pastorals.- Chapter 2: Prognosticating Tempests in The A...
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Sandhya Patel is Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Studies at Université Clermont Auvergne, France.
Sophie Chiari-Lasserre is Professor of Early M...
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