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Strategies of Sanity and Survival - Religious Responses to Natural Disasters in the Middle Ages (Paperback)
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Strategies of Sanity and Survival - Religious Responses to Natural Disasters in the Middle Ages (Paperback)
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Natural disasters have long been a neglected subject in the study
of history. At most they have been casually mentioned as a
background material for political or social history. During the 90s
this state of affairs has slowly began to change. Nevertheless,
there is still no general history of natural disasters available in
any language. This book aims to cover one grey area in historical
studies, that is, spiritual responses and survival strategies of
medieval man in front of natural disasters. It asks what were his
means to deal with natural disasters, phenomena he could not
scientifically understand. How did he try to prevent them? What
were his feelings and actions when the situation was on? How did he
manage to carry on with his life afterwards? It is an unusual book
in many respects. It is a specific study based on original and in
most cases unedited sources, but it can also be read as a general
introduction. It crosses boundaries between different fields of
learning and traditionally accepted time periods of history. Even
if it is essentially a book on medieval man, it stretches far
beyond the middle ages as conventionally understood. The final
chapter traces the slow disappearance of the medieval mentality
until the early nineteenth century.
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