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The Writing of Natural Disaster in Europe, 1500–1826 : Events in Excess, Paperback / softback Book

The Writing of Natural Disaster in Europe, 1500–1826 : Events in Excess Paperback / softback

Edited by Sandhya Patel, Sophie Chiari

Paperback / softback

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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.

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