Heroes in Dark Times
Saints and Officials Tackling Disaster (16th-17th Centuries)
edited by Milena Viceconte, Gennaro Schiano and Domenico Cecere
In the accounts of disaster of the early modern period, it seemed as though the heroes were missing, replaced by the anthropomorphic rage of the natural elements. Nevertheless, it did sometimes happen that singular figures emerged from the blurry mass of the people and their dramatic anecdotes, and sprang into action to address the emergency. Sometimes they were saints, sometimes local institutions: the former were invoked to mediate with heaven to placate divine anger through miracles, and the latter to manage the catastrophe and provide aid and relief. The chapters in this volume reflect on this composite phenomenon of salvific actions, especially when they assumed the character of heroic gestures suspended between reality and fiction, human and divine, ordinary and extraordinary.
- By (author) Beatriz Alvarez Garcia
- By (author) Sara Caredda
- By (author) Domenico Cecere
- By (author) Ramon Dilla Marti
- By (author) Valeria Enea
- By (author) Maite Iraceburu Jimenez
- By (author) Juan Manuel Luna Cruz
- By (author) Annachiara Monaco
- By (author) Jose A. Ortiz
- By (author) Marco Papasidero
- By (author) Antonio Perrone
- By (author) Gennaro Schiano
- By (author) Flavia Tudini
- By (author) Gennaro Varriale
- By (author) Milena Viceconte
- Edited by Domenico Cecere
- Edited by Gennaro Schiano
- Edited by Milena Viceconte
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