1st Edition
Disaster in the Early Modern World Examinations, Representations, Interventions
Introduction
Ovanes Akopyan and David Rosenthal
Part 1: Examinations
1. Taming the Future?: From ‘Natural’ Hazards and ‘Disasters’ to a Securitisation Against ‘Risks’
Gerrit Jasper Schenk
2. Power, Fortune and Scientia naturalis: A Humanist Reading of Disasters in Giannozzo Manetti’s De terremotu
Ovanes Akopyan
3. Thinking with the Flood: Animal Endangerment and the Moral Economy of Disaster
Lydia Barnett
4. Flood, Fire, and Tears: Imagining Climate Apocalypse in Scheuchzer’s De portione (1707/08)
Sara Miglietti
5. Communicating Research on the Great Frost in the Republic of Letters: From Halle to London
William M. Barton
Part 2: Representations
6. What is an Avalanche?: Death in the Snow from Antiquity to Early Modern Times
Martin Korenjak
7. Disasters and Devotion: Sacred Images and Religious Practices in Spanish America (16th–18th Centuries)
Milena Viceconte
8. Straightening the Arno: Artistic Representations of Water Management in Medici Ducal and Grand Ducal Florence
Felicia M. Else
9. Responses to a Recurrent Disaster: Flood Writings in Rome, 1476–1598
Pamela O. Long
Part 3: Interventions
10. Flood, War and Economy: Leonardo da Vinci and the Plan to Divert the Arno River
Emanuela Ferretti
11. The Making of a Transnational Disaster Saint: Francisco Borja, Patron Saint of Earthquakes from the Andes to Europe
Monica Azzolini
12. Dikes, Ships and Worms: Testing the Limits of Envirotechnical Transfer During the Dutch Shipworm Epidemic of the 1730s
Adam Sundberg
Biography
Ovanes Akopyan is a Marie Skłodowska-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.
