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The Culture of Disaster (Inbunden)
avMarie-helene Huet
ISBN: 9780226358215 - UTGIVEN: 201210From antiquity through the Enlightenment, disasters were attributed to the obscure power of the stars or the vengeance of angry gods. As philosophers sought to reassess the origins of natural disasters, they also made it clear that humans shared responsibility for the damages caused by a violent uni[...]
Monstrous Imagination (Häftad)
avMarie-Helene Huet
ISBN: 9780674586499 - UTGIVEN: 199306What woeful maternal fancy produced such a monster? This was once the question asked when a deformed infant was born. From classical antiquity through to the Enlightenment, the monstrous child bore witness to the fearsome power of the mother's imagination. What such a notion meant and how it reappea[...]
