Weathering the Reformation

Weathering the Reformation explores the role of the Little Ice Age in early modern Christian culture and considers climate as a contributing factor in the Protestant Reform.

Autorentext

Linnéa Rowlatt is Research Coordinator for the International Network for Training, Education, and Research on Culture (Network on Culture) based in Canada. Her PhD was jointly awarded by the University of Kent, UK and the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Klappentext

Weathering the Reformation explores the role of the Little Ice Age in early modern Christian culture and considers climate as a contributing factor in the Protestant Reform.

Inhalt

1. Physical and Social Frames: The Upper Rhine Valley and Pre-Reform Alsatian Society 2. Pre-Reform Roman Catholicism and Nature (Case Study 1) 3. The Common Man and the Natural World from Lent 1509 to 1525 (Case Study 2) 4. The Reform of Nature in Strasbourg (Case Study 3)