1st Edition
Saints and Storms A Cultural History of Miraculous Weather Events in Medieval Italy
Introduction
1 Weather, hagiography, and saints
2 Miraculous storms and climate change in the early Middle Ages
3 Miraculous weather phenomena in the Medieval Warm Period
4 Towards the Little Ice Age: Climatic phenomena in the late Middle Ages
5 Saints and rain: Prayers, performative actions, and gender aspects
6 Relics and prayers: Collective rituals and private devotion
7 Magical-folkloric beliefs and practices
8 Interpreting weather phenomena: Punishment and protection
9 Miraculous rains beyond the Alps: A comparative approach
Conclusions
Biography
Marco Papasidero is a Historian of Christianity. His research focuses on the cult of saints from a diachronic perspective, pilgrimage and devotional spaces, healing practices at shrines, hagiographic sources, and the cultural relationship among miracle, medicine, and magic. His recent books include The Monastic Dimension of Identity Politics: Global Case Studies from the Premodern Period (2024, edited with Dean Accardi and Emilia Jamroziak) and Thefts of Relics in Italy: From Late Antiquity to the Central Middle Ages, 300–1150 (2025).
