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Project Website Information:\u00a0<\/strong>Carina Damm \/ Weather Perceptions in the Medieval North<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Title<\/b>: Weather Perceptions in the Medieval North<\/span><\/p>\n

Acronym<\/b>: POGODA<\/span><\/p>\n

Principle Investigator<\/b>: Carina Damm<\/span><\/p>\n

Contact<\/b>: <\/span>carina.damm@us.edu.pl<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Funding<\/b>: This research is part of the project No. 2022\/47\/P\/HS3\/01044 co-funded by the National Science Centre and the European Union\u2019s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sk\u0142odowska-Curie grant agreement No. 945339.<\/span><\/p>\n

Host<\/b>: The project is being carried out at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Department of Humanities, Institute of History, in the Centre for Nordic and Old English Studies (<\/span>http:\/\/www.cbns.us.edu.pl\/<\/span><\/a>). The researchers working at the Centre for Nordic and Old English Studies of the University of Silesia (CBNS) study medieval societies of these regions by focusing on their history, culture, and literature. The research at the CBNS focuses mainly on political and social changes, the ideology of power, and on Old Norse and Old English literature. Studying the history and culture of medieval England, Scandinavia, and the territories of the Northern Atlantic contributes to a better understanding of the European Middle Ages.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Project Description<\/b>:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The contemporary challenges associated with human-induced climate change, including floods, droughts, avalanches and other disasters, continue to stimulate an escalating scientific interest in the ways in which human societies responded to analogous crises in premodern times. This project is anchored in the turn of the second millennium CE in the margins of the North Atlantic. In the recently Christianised North, a Latin literary culture developed on the basis of a well-established insular writing tradition, rapidly flourishing in its vernacular form. This emerging corpus of Old Norse texts provides excellent documentary sources that offer insights into human-environmental interactions in the medieval North. These texts hold twofold significance: Firstly, they can contribute to the reconstruction of weather events of the past. Secondly, they can provide insights into the medieval minds of their authors. Ultimately, in addition to their ideological and literary functions, the analysed textual evidence permits to draw conclusions regarding the societal consequences of environmental extreme events resulting in famines, epidemics, as well as epizootic diseases.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The project\u2019s objective is to make a contribution to the reconstruction of the environmental history of Northern Europe in the context of high medieval climate changes (c. 1000\u20131300), a field of historical climatology that remains understudied. The project poses the following questions: How did medieval women and men adapt to, instrumentalise, and visualise the phenomena they witnessed? And how did environmental changes, famines, and mobility movements affect one another? Furthermore, it attempts to demonstrate how medieval Scandinavians remembered past these changes within their literary and material culture. The relevance of this project for our time is demonstrated by the results gained on how past Nordic societies developed resilience to environmental extremes, which may enable us to anticipate anthropogenic environmental stress in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n

In contrast with the growing interest and importance of climate-related studies, the Nordic perspective has only played a minor role in the most recent comprehensive overviews of historical disasters, or has been entirely overlooked. Nevertheless, the importance of medieval Northern Europe as a subject of study for environmental and ecocritical research is evident in the increasing number of works examining the relationship between past climate challenges and their societal impacts in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n

This justifies an analysis of environmental-related sources from medieval Iceland particularly, which builds on and enhances the results presented in recent scholarship conducted in this field.\u00a0 The material is primarily drawn from the extensive medieval Icelandic text corpus, with the addition of archaeological data. A final methodological approach incorporates natural-scientific proxies for historical climate reconstruction, utilising results from tephrochronological and palynological research. This interdisciplinary perspective enhances the literary-based project by incorporating data obtained from the \u201carchives of nature.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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