IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 2314: Wind and Weather in Literary and Narrative Sources from Byzantium and Europe
Friday 9 July 2021, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Climate Reconstruction & Impacts from the Archives of Societies (CRIAS) / Past Global Changes Working Group (PAGES) |
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Organisers: | Chantal Camenisch, Historisches Institut, Universität Bern Maximilian Schuh, Historisches Seminar, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg |
Moderator/Chair: | Heli Huhtamaa, Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
Paper 2314-a | The Wind that Shakes the Fronds: Hidden Agency and Metamorphosis in a Middle-Byzantine Poem (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Language and Literature - Greek, Mentalities |
Paper 2314-b | Between maxima tempestas and optima temperies: Perceptions of Weather and Seasons in Narrative Sources from Medieval Austria, 12th-13th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Local History, Mentalities |
Paper 2314-c | Only Politics and War?: The Importance of Weather in 14th-Century English Chronicles (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities, Politics and Diplomacy |
Abstract | The detailed study of weather and its perception has become of importance for the history of medieval Europe and the Mediterranean Sea. The session examines weather perceptions in John Geometres' Middle-Byzantine poem To the Spring (10th century) as well as in narrative sources from Austria (12th-13th centuries) and from England (14th century). All papers discuss critically the characteristics and importance of weather in the respective texts. Furthermore, special attention is paid to the agency of weather phenomena. This approach improves the understanding of weather events in medieval literary and narrative sources. |