The Writing of Natural Disaster in Europe, 1500-1826: Events in Excess (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783031121197)

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.


Author: Sandhya Patel
ISBN-10: 3031121198
ISBN-13: 9783031121197
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 12/13/2022
Pages: 182
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs