Strategies of Sanity and Survival: Religious Responses to Natural Disasters in the Middle Ages FROM THE PUBLISHER
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 afterwords?
SYNOPSIS
By medieval, Hanska (history, U. of Tampere, Finland) here refers not a specific period of time, but to a set of feelings and attitudes held by people living during a considerably long time. He looks at how people sought divine protection before disaster fell, how they reacted at the moment of peril, and how they explained and survived during the aftermath. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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