The Writing Of Natural Disaster In Europe, 1500–1826: Events In Excess

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, Sophie Chiari
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Dec 13, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 191 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 3031121198
• | ISBN-13: 9783031121197