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Waiting for the End of the World?: New Perspectives on Natural Disasters in Medieval Europe book cover

1st Edition

Waiting for the End of the World? New Perspectives on Natural Disasters in Medieval Europe

Edited By Christopher M. Gerrard, Paolo Forlin, Peter J. Brown Copyright 2021
450 Pages 11 Color & 120 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

450 Pages 11 Color & 120 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

450 Pages 11 Color & 120 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Waiting for the End of the World? addresses the archaeological, architectural, historical and geological evidence for natural disasters in the Middle Ages between the 11th and 16th centuries. This volume adopts a fresh interdisciplinary approach to explore the many ways in which environmental hazards affected European populations and, in turn, how medieval communities coped and responded to... Read more
  1. Researching natural disasters in the later Middle Ages

    2. Peter J. Brown, Paolo Forlin and Christopher M. Gerrard

    Part I: Tectonic Hazards

  2. Rituals of resilience: The interpretative archaeology of post-seismic recovery in medieval Europe

    3. Paolo Forlin

  3. Medieval earthquakes in Italy: Perceptions and reactions

    4. Bruno Figliuolo

  4. Seismic adaptation in the Latin churches of Cyprus

    5. Rory O’Neill

  5. Architectural heritage and ancient earthquakes in Italy: The constraints and potential of archaeoseismological research applied to medieval buildings

    6. Margherita Ganz and Andrea Arrighetti

  6. Medieval tsunamis in the Mediterranean and Atlantic: Towards an archaeological perspective

    7. Christopher M. Gerrard　

  7. Volcanic eruptions and historical landscape on Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain

    8. José de León Hernández

  8. ‘The harvest of despair’: Catastrophic fear and the understanding of risk in the shadow of Mount Etna, Italy

    9. Lauren Ware and Lee John Whittington

    Part II: Severe Storms and Hydrological Hazards

  9. Mitigating riverine flood risk in medieval England

    10. Richard Jones and Susan Kilby

  10. Tide and trauma: Tangible and intangible impacts of the storms of 1287 and 1288

    11. Peter J. Brown

  11. Disaster or everyday risk? Perceiving, managing and commemorating floods in medieval central Europe

    12. Christian Rohr

  12. Recovering from catastrophe: How medieval society in England coped with disasters

    13. Christopher Dyer

  13. Fear, matter and miracles: Personal protection and coping with disasters through material culture c1200−1600

    14. Eleanor R. Standley

    Part III: Biophysical Hazards

  14. Digging up the victims of the Black Death: A bioarchaeological perspective on the second plague pandemic

    15. Sacha Kacki

  15. Preserving the ordinary: Social resistance during the second pandemic plagues in the Low Countries

    16. Daniel R. Curtis

  16. Reconstructing the impact of 14th-century demographic disasters on late medieval rural communities in England

    17. Carenza Lewis

  17. Recognising catastrophic cattle-mortality events in England and their repercussions

    18. Louisa J. Gidney

  18. Medieval archaeology and natural disasters: Looking towards the future

Paolo Forlin, Christopher M. Gerrard and Peter J. Brown 　

PART IV: Catalogue

19. Catalogue of medieval disasters

Peter J. Brown, Paolo Forlin and Christopher M. Gerrard

　

Biography

Christopher M. Gerrard is a Professor in the Department of Archaeology, Durham University, UK.

Paolo Forlin is a Research Associate in the Department of Archaeology, Durham University, UK.

Peter J. Brown recently completed his PhD in the Department of Archaeology, Durham University, UK.

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