Introduction: Cultural Responses to Catastrophes from Early Modern to Modern Times

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of Illustrations 7
4. Plate signed Graafland (probably Rob Graafland), The Storm of August 1925 14
5. Introduction: Cultural Responses to Catastrophes from Early Modern to Modern Times 15
6. Part 1: Disaster and Emotions
7. 1. Temporality, Emotion, and Gender in Leonardo da Vinci’s Conceptualisation of Natural Violence 39
8. 2. Early Modern Community Formation Across Northern Europe 61
9. 3. Landscape as Wounded Body 83
10. 4. Suffering Compatriots 103
11. 5. Cultural Resilience during Nineteenth-Century Cholera Outbreaks in the Netherlands 121
12. Part 2: Disaster and Blame
13. 6. Dealing in Disasters 139
14. 7. The Ten Plagues of the New World 157
15. 8. ‘Hungry Balliz Wants Weel Fillin’ 177
16. 9. Rinderpest in Dutch Regional Fiction 205
17. Part 3: Disaster and Time
18. 10. Coping with Epidemics in Early Modern Chronicles, The Low Countries, 1500–1850 229
19. 11. Coverage in Dutch Newspapers of Earthquakes in Italy and Beyond before Lisbon 1755 249
20. 12. The Development of Disaster Prints and Publications in Japan, 1663–1923 269
21. 13. Breaking the Cycles of Catastrophe 293
22. 14. Disaster Memory and ‘Banished Memory’ 315
23. About the Author 337