Rohr, Christian (Author)
In this paper, emphasis will be given to a mentality bound approach, which asks for the perception, interpretation, management and cultural responses to floods. It will be shown that these aspects are influenced rather more by the expectation of floods than by religious beliefs. This study will examine in particular the reactions of the people living close to the Danube River and its catchment area in Austria between the 14th and 17th centuries. As climate and weather history of pre-modern times is based on non-objective measurement, it is not easy to get proxy data from records such as This year happened an extraordinary flood. So, the following questions have to be answered to contextualize non-objective records: How did the people experience these floods? How did the specific interpretations of these days look like? Can they be called irrational or had the people built up a culture of flood management?7 How did they manage the floods with the available means? Did the strategies of perception, interpretation and management change within the period from the Late Middle Ages to the 17th century? Were public reactions, such as the legislations of city councils, the landlords and the modern state, always equivalent to individual reactions? Did people in the cities and in the countryside learn from experience and change their living and working attitudes in the course of consecutive flood events?
...MoreDescription On the perception, interpretation, management and cultural responses to floods.
Article McNally, Louis K., III; Rohr, Christian (2005) Symposium Editors' Introduction. History of Meteorology (p. 37).
Article
Garden, Donald A.;
(2008)
El Niño, Irrigation Dams and Stopbanks: Examining the Repercussions of the 1876--78 El Niño in Australia and New Zealand
(/isis/citation/CBB000931787/)
Article
Rohr, Christian;
(2013)
Floods of the Upper Danube River and Its Tributaries and Their Impact on Urban Economies (c. 1350--1600): The Examples of the Towns of Krems/Stein and Wels (Austria)
(/isis/citation/CBB001421390/)
Book
Raffaello Vergani;
(2003)
Miniere e società nella montagna del passato. Alpi venete, secoli XIII-XIX
(/isis/citation/CBB432582515/)
Chapter
Maria Pia Donato;
(2012)
Anatomia, autopsia, sectio: problemi di fonti e di metodo
(/isis/citation/CBB267957700/)
Book
Knight, David M.;
(2015)
Voyaging in Strange Seas: The Great Revolution in Science
(/isis/citation/CBB001551963/)
Book
Marco Leonardi;
(2017)
Aqua curanda est. Le acque e il loro utilizzo nei territori di Friburgo in Brisgovia e Catania dal XIII al XVI secolo
(/isis/citation/CBB366779880/)
Chapter
Gabriella Zuccolin;
(2005)
Ruolo ed evoluzione della balneoterapia nel pensiero scientifico-medico in Italia dal XII al XVI secolo
(/isis/citation/CBB471346485/)
Chapter
Raffaello Vergani;
(2010)
Problemi d’acque e scavo di canali nell’alta pianura veneta dei secoli XIV-XVI
(/isis/citation/CBB029768275/)
Chapter
Didier Boisseuil;
(2010)
Impiego e cultura delle acque termali in Italia nel Rinascimento (XIII-XVI secolo)
(/isis/citation/CBB155943858/)
Article
Martin, Craig;
(2009)
Conjecture, Probabilism, and Provisional Knowledge in Renaissance Meteorology
(/isis/citation/CBB000932580/)
Article
Seeley, Joseph;
Skabelund, Aaron;
(2015)
Tigers---Real and Imagined---in Korea's Physical and Cultural Landscape
(/isis/citation/CBB001422375/)
Book
Vito Rovigo;
(2016)
Il fiume, le terre, l’immaginario. L’Adige come fenomeno storiografico complesso
(/isis/citation/CBB661048611/)
Book
Heinz Andermahr;
(2014)
Handelsgüter und Wirtschaftskräfte in den Städten des Herzogtums Jülich vom 14. bis zum 17. Jahrhundert
(/isis/citation/CBB916041156/)
Article
Claudio Moreschini;
(2011)
La ricezione del "Quod animi mores" di Galeno fra Medioevo e Rinascimento : traduzioni, edizioni e commenti
(/isis/citation/CBB006473355/)
Book
Greefs, Hilde;
Hart, Marjolein 't;
(2006)
Water management, communities, and environment: The Low Countries in comparative perspective, c. 1000--c. 1800 = Waterbeheer, gemeenschappen en de natuurlijke omgeving: De Lage Landen in comparatief perspectief, c. 1000--c. 1800
(/isis/citation/CBB001180778/)
Book
Abigail Agresta;
Assistant Professor of History Abigail Agresta;
(2022)
The Keys to Bread and Wine: Faith, Nature, and Infrastructure in Late Medieval Valencia
(/isis/citation/CBB778426768/)
Essay Review
Smith, Pamela H.;
(2000)
Essay Review of Lorraine Daston and Katherine Park's Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 (1998)
(/isis/citation/CBB000111024/)
Book
Ostorero, Martine;
Modestin, Georg;
Utz Tremp, Kathrin;
(2010)
Chasses aux sorcières et démonologie: entre discours et pratiques (XIVe-XVIIe siècles)
(/isis/citation/CBB001200354/)
Article
Karen Hunger Parshall;
(2017)
A Plurality of Algebras, 1200–1600: Algebraic Europe from Fibonacci to Clavius
(/isis/citation/CBB964219676/)
Book
Kittler, Friedrich;
Enns, Anthony;
(2010)
Optical media: Berlin lectures 1999
(/isis/citation/CBB001180070/)
Be the first to comment!