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Miranda, Tiago C. P. dos Reis; Olival, Fernanda; Lisboa, João Luís da Costa Campos Vieira

doi:10.4000/cultura.3493

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“…In Portugal, weather and climate were more popular topics in social and economic history, particularly when related to floods in Mediterranean agricultural societies. Critical editions of historical sources have recently been published (Miranda 2005;Lisboa et al 2002Lisboa et al -2005, and several geographers have written accounts of disastrous floods of the twentieth century (Amaral 1968;Daveau et al 1978;Roxo and Ventura 1986;Azevêdo et al 2004). In the maritime setting, studies of ships' logbooks for the period 1750-1850 undertaken in the CLIWOC project (Climatological Database for the World's Oceans) have shown the value of such material as a source of reliable climatic data and storm information (Garcia-Herrera et al 2005a, b) and have cast a new light on storminess in the late seventeenth century in Wheeler and SuarezDominguez (2006) and Wheeler et al (2009).…”

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The meteorological framework and the cultural memory of three severe winter-storms in early eighteenth-century Europe

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Three violent eighteenth-century storms that ravaged the North Sea area (1703), western central Europe (1739) and Portugal (1739) are investigated from the point of view of their meteorological setting, their socio-economic impact, and whether and by what means they secured an enduring place in the cultural memory. The evidence draws on individual narrative sources such as chronicles and poems, and institutional sources such as ship's logbooks and state-organised 'windthrow' inventories of tree loss. Each of the three storms had socio-economic impacts that could be described as 'war-like' in the damage caused to buildings and the destruction of forests. The "Great Storm" of December 1703 jeopardized English naval supremacy in the War of the Spanish Succession by sinking a number of Royal Navy ships and taking the life of more than 8000 seamen. In January 1739 two similarly destructive storms swept over mainland Europe. The cultural memory of the three events here considered was however strikingly different. The C. Pfister (B)

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