From “today’s weather” to its lived experience in the Renaissance: nature, traces, and texts

Authors

  • Francesca Canadé Sautman Hunter College and The Graduate Center of CUNY

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/1645-2259_18_18

Abstract

This essay examines a few texts, mostly from the 16th century, from different authors and genres, focused on the lived experience of nature, in particular, through meteorological events. It considers the forms and affects in these texts that consign to memory the daily experience of weather problems, or of “weather as experienced.” Proximity and engagement with the natural environment, marked by weather events, is another dimension of this research. While predicting weather largely remains the province of popular belief and liturgical practices, these texts, which do not belong to recognized scientific genres, are located in-between, voicing original perspectives regarding nature.

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Published

2018-12-22

Issue

Vol. 18 (2018)

Section

Artigos

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Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows sharing the work with recognition of authorship and initial publication in Antropologia Portuguesa journal.