Devastated nature : The emotions of natural world catastrophe in sixteenth-century France
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Broomhall, Susan. (2021). Devastated nature : The emotions of natural world catastrophe in sixteenth-century France. In Early modern trauma : Europe and the Atlantic world pp. 31-53 University of Nebraska Press.
Authors | Broomhall, Susan |
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Abstract | [Extract] This chapter explores how early modern individuals managed perceptions of environmental destruction, including such natural events as floods, storms, and fires, and such human interventions as logging and agricultural practices. It focuses on a variety of sixteenth-century genres, among them, journals, essays, and poetry. These texts narrate exceptional occurrences of destruction as their authors bore witness to them; some even conceptualized the possibility of pain and trauma experienced by nature itself. Contemporaries described, visualized, and materialized their observations of unusual, extreme, and damaging events in the natural world in both pragmatic and creative works through early modern conceptual frameworks—spiritual, philosophical, and theological among them—that created templates not only for what could be perceived as catastrophic destruction but also appropriate responses to such events. |
Page range | 31-53 |
Year | 2021 |
Book title | Early modern trauma : Europe and the Atlantic world |
Publisher | University of Nebraska Press |
Place of publication | Nebraska, NE |
ISBN | 9781496227515 |
9781496208910 | |
Web address (URL) | https://muse.jhu.edu/chapter/2977665 |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Supplemental file | File Access Level Safeguarded |
Output status | Published |
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2021 | |
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Deposited | 16 May 2022 |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/8xw79/devastated-nature-the-emotions-of-natural-world-catastrophe-in-sixteenth-century-france
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