IMC 2008: Sessions
Session 214: Cultural Responses to Natural Disasters in the Late Middle Ages: Northern Italy, Castile, France, and the Netherlands
Monday 7 July 2008, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Interdisciplinary Centre for Medieval Studies, Universität Salzburg |
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| Organiser: | Christian Rohr, Fachbereich Geschichte, Universität Salzburg |
| Moderator/Chair: | Christian Rohr, Fachbereich Geschichte, Universität Salzburg |
| Paper 214-a | La nature et la politique dans la chronique de Jean II de Castille: Les catastrophes naturelles (Language: Français) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese, Political Thought, Rhetoric |
| Paper 214-c | Changing Perception of Natural Disasters in the Low Countries between 1400 and 1600: Fact or Fiction? (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Mentalities, Social History |
| Abstract | Studies on the perception(s), interpretation(s) and management of natural hazards and diseases have become one of the most dynamic fields in environmental history and in cultural history in general during the last years. Religious responses, such as apocalyptic interpretations or weather processions were only one way to cope with weather extremes or animal plagues. If people had got acquainted with extreme events, they normally built up a 'culture of disaster' (Greg Bankoff). The papers concern Italy, Castile, France, and the Netherlands and point out the diversity of coping strategies during the Late Middle Ages. In this way, they help to de-construct traditional clichés of medieval mentalities. |