IMC 2004: Sessions
Session 1520: The Clash between Man and Nature: Writing the Natural Disaster
Thursday 15 July 2004, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Universität Salzburg: SAMS.on (Salzburger Mittelalterstudien online) / Medieval Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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| Organiser: | Christian Rohr, Institut für Geschichte, Universität Salzburg |
| Moderator/Chair: | Maria Elisabeth Dorninger, Institut für Germanistik, Universität Salzburg |
| Paper 1520-a | Nicolò Speciale and the Eruption of Etna in 1329 (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Language and Literature - Latin, Mentalities, Social History |
| Paper 1520-b | Methods and Motifs of Making a Flood in Late Medieval Latin Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Language and Literature - Latin, Mentalities, Social History |
| Paper 1520-c | The Rhetorics of Disaster in Renaissance Humanism (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Mentalities, Rhetoric, Social History |
| Abstract | Natural hazards, such as earthquakes, floods and volcanic eruptions, do not become catastrophes automatically. Only the perception and interpretation by the people make them natural disasters. The papers of this session will, therefore, examine the methods of ‘writing a disaster’ in Late Medieval and Humanist Latin literature. Which topoi and motifs have been used to describe this clash between people and wild nature? Which technical terms have been introduced? As the papers focus on different natural disasters and different types of sources, comparative aspects can be highlighted as well. |