The project Disasters, Communication and Politics in Southwestern Europe: the Making of Emergency Response Policies in the Early Modern Age (DisComPoSE) investigates the connections between the circulation of news about natural disasters, the processing of information about such events and the development of emergency management policies.

DisComPoSE examines the European and extra-European territories of the Hispanic Monarchy between the 16th and 18th centuries, and intends to understand how specific interpretations of environmental disasters influenced the evolution of cultural frameworks, of social relations and of power structures in ancien régime societies.

The five-year project is financed by the European Research Council (ERC) and is hosted by the Department of Humanities of the University of Naples Federico II. It involves scholars from different fields: from social and cultural history to the history of institutions, from textual criticism to the history of language and images, from anthropology to the history of science.

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Disruptive transformations such as natural disasters, technological innovations, and demographic, socio-economic and organizational crises make resilience an urgent priority on the research agenda of contemporary social and behavioural sciences and humanities. The fragility of social systems and their underlying institutional foundations was investigated by the scholars and students who participated in the Summer School SuRe […]

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DisComPoSE Digital Archive

Data related to thousands of sources on natural disasters in the Spanish Monarchy during the early modern age can be consulted through the DisComPoSE Digital Archive. The research group has collected and analysed a huge number of documents and divided them into three categories: manuscripts, printed texts, and images. The period best covered by the […]

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DisComPoSE research at the SISAM conference

The developments of the DisComPoSE Project research will be presented during the second national conference of the Italian Society of Environmental History (SISAM), titled Italian Environmental History from Ancient to Contemporary Times: Themes, Sources, and Methods, which will be held in Naples at the Department of Humanities of the University of Naples Federico II. On […]

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Discover DisComPoSE

– Discover DisComPoSE –
– Digital Archive–

The Digital Archive provides access to detailed cards of printed documents, manuscripts, and images related to natural disasters in the Spanish Crown territory from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, collected by our research group. In each card, users can view the set of collected metadata, such as place of origin, production date, conservation institution, and where available, the transcription of handwritten and/or printed text. To learn more, click here.

– Routes–

Explore now Routes, the new interactive platform by DisComPoSE, through which you can visualize, quickly and intuitively, via a virtual map, the spatial reconstruction of documentation, tracking the movements of documents within the territories of the Spanish Crown from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. To learn more, click here.

Inside DisComPoSE

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This project has received funding from the European Research (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement N°759829

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