Disaster in the Early Modern World
Examinations, Representations, Interventions
Herausgeber: Akopyan, Ovanes; Rosenthal, David
Disaster in the Early Modern World
Examinations, Representations, Interventions
Herausgeber: Akopyan, Ovanes; Rosenthal, David
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How did early modern societies think about disasters, such as earthquakes or floods? How did they represent disaster, and how did they intervene to mitigate its destructive effects? This collection showcases the breadth of new work on the period ca. 1300-1750.
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How did early modern societies think about disasters, such as earthquakes or floods? How did they represent disaster, and how did they intervene to mitigate its destructive effects? This collection showcases the breadth of new work on the period ca. 1300-1750.
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- Verlag: Routledge
- Seitenzahl: 328
- Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2023
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
- Gewicht: 621g
- ISBN-13: 9780367465971
- ISBN-10: 0367465973
- Artikelnr.: 68474549
- Verlag: Routledge
- Seitenzahl: 328
- Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2023
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
- Gewicht: 621g
- ISBN-13: 9780367465971
- ISBN-10: 0367465973
- Artikelnr.: 68474549
Ovanes Akopyan is a Marie Sk¿odowska-Curie fellow at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. David Rosenthal is a Research Fellow at the University of Exeter and co-director of Hidden Cities apps.
Introduction Part 1: Examinations 1. Taming the Future?: From 'Natural'
Hazards and 'Disasters' to a Securitisation Against 'Risks' 2. Power,
Fortune and Scientia naturalis: A Humanist Reading of Disasters in
Giannozzo Manetti's De terremotu 3. Thinking with the Flood: Animal
Endangerment and the Moral Economy of Disaster 4. Flood, Fire, and Tears:
Imagining Climate Apocalypse in Scheuchzer's De portione (1707/08) 5.
Communicating Research on the Great Frost in the Republic of Letters: From
Halle to London Part 2: Representations 6. What is an Avalanche?: Death in
the Snow from Antiquity to Early Modern Times 7. Disasters and Devotion:
Sacred Images and Religious Practices in Spanish America (16th-18th
Centuries) 8. Straightening the Arno: Artistic Representations of Water
Management in Medici Ducal and Grand Ducal Florence 9. Responses to a
Recurrent Disaster: Flood Writings in Rome, 1476-1598 Part 3: Interventions
10. Flood, War and Economy: Leonardo da Vinci and the Plan to Divert the
Arno River 11. The Making of a Transnational Disaster Saint: Francisco
Borja, Patron Saint of Earthquakes from the Andes to Europe 12. Dikes,
Ships and Worms: Testing the Limits of Envirotechnical Transfer During the
Dutch Shipworm Epidemic of the 1730s
Hazards and 'Disasters' to a Securitisation Against 'Risks' 2. Power,
Fortune and Scientia naturalis: A Humanist Reading of Disasters in
Giannozzo Manetti's De terremotu 3. Thinking with the Flood: Animal
Endangerment and the Moral Economy of Disaster 4. Flood, Fire, and Tears:
Imagining Climate Apocalypse in Scheuchzer's De portione (1707/08) 5.
Communicating Research on the Great Frost in the Republic of Letters: From
Halle to London Part 2: Representations 6. What is an Avalanche?: Death in
the Snow from Antiquity to Early Modern Times 7. Disasters and Devotion:
Sacred Images and Religious Practices in Spanish America (16th-18th
Centuries) 8. Straightening the Arno: Artistic Representations of Water
Management in Medici Ducal and Grand Ducal Florence 9. Responses to a
Recurrent Disaster: Flood Writings in Rome, 1476-1598 Part 3: Interventions
10. Flood, War and Economy: Leonardo da Vinci and the Plan to Divert the
Arno River 11. The Making of a Transnational Disaster Saint: Francisco
Borja, Patron Saint of Earthquakes from the Andes to Europe 12. Dikes,
Ships and Worms: Testing the Limits of Envirotechnical Transfer During the
Dutch Shipworm Epidemic of the 1730s
Introduction Part 1: Examinations 1. Taming the Future?: From 'Natural'
Hazards and 'Disasters' to a Securitisation Against 'Risks' 2. Power,
Fortune and Scientia naturalis: A Humanist Reading of Disasters in
Giannozzo Manetti's De terremotu 3. Thinking with the Flood: Animal
Endangerment and the Moral Economy of Disaster 4. Flood, Fire, and Tears:
Imagining Climate Apocalypse in Scheuchzer's De portione (1707/08) 5.
Communicating Research on the Great Frost in the Republic of Letters: From
Halle to London Part 2: Representations 6. What is an Avalanche?: Death in
the Snow from Antiquity to Early Modern Times 7. Disasters and Devotion:
Sacred Images and Religious Practices in Spanish America (16th-18th
Centuries) 8. Straightening the Arno: Artistic Representations of Water
Management in Medici Ducal and Grand Ducal Florence 9. Responses to a
Recurrent Disaster: Flood Writings in Rome, 1476-1598 Part 3: Interventions
10. Flood, War and Economy: Leonardo da Vinci and the Plan to Divert the
Arno River 11. The Making of a Transnational Disaster Saint: Francisco
Borja, Patron Saint of Earthquakes from the Andes to Europe 12. Dikes,
Ships and Worms: Testing the Limits of Envirotechnical Transfer During the
Dutch Shipworm Epidemic of the 1730s
Hazards and 'Disasters' to a Securitisation Against 'Risks' 2. Power,
Fortune and Scientia naturalis: A Humanist Reading of Disasters in
Giannozzo Manetti's De terremotu 3. Thinking with the Flood: Animal
Endangerment and the Moral Economy of Disaster 4. Flood, Fire, and Tears:
Imagining Climate Apocalypse in Scheuchzer's De portione (1707/08) 5.
Communicating Research on the Great Frost in the Republic of Letters: From
Halle to London Part 2: Representations 6. What is an Avalanche?: Death in
the Snow from Antiquity to Early Modern Times 7. Disasters and Devotion:
Sacred Images and Religious Practices in Spanish America (16th-18th
Centuries) 8. Straightening the Arno: Artistic Representations of Water
Management in Medici Ducal and Grand Ducal Florence 9. Responses to a
Recurrent Disaster: Flood Writings in Rome, 1476-1598 Part 3: Interventions
10. Flood, War and Economy: Leonardo da Vinci and the Plan to Divert the
Arno River 11. The Making of a Transnational Disaster Saint: Francisco
Borja, Patron Saint of Earthquakes from the Andes to Europe 12. Dikes,
Ships and Worms: Testing the Limits of Envirotechnical Transfer During the
Dutch Shipworm Epidemic of the 1730s