A new monograph has been added to the publications resulting from DisComPoSE research. It is Gennaro Varriale‘s volume News from the Epicentre. The Flow of Information about Earthquakes in the Hispanic Monarchy (XVI–XVII Centuries), which investigates the dissemination of news about earthquakes in the early modern period within the dominions of the Habsburg dynasty: a […]
On Friday, 22nd November 2024, DisComPoSE Principal Investigator Domenico Cecere will participate in the international conference Esperienza della scoperta e memoria dei disastri. Strumenti, fonti, metodologie, which will be held at the Department of Architecture of the University of Roma Tre. This event is organized by Francesca Mattei, Giulia Ceriani Sebregondi, and Danila Jacazzi as […]
Within the DisComPoSE line of research is Annachiara Monaco’s recently published work Forme testuali e stili narrativi delle relazioni a stampa sull’eruzione del Vesuvio del 1631 (Forms and narrative styles of the printed reports on the 1631 eruption of Vesuvius). The researcher analyses the linguistic-formal strategies adopted to narrate the disaster in the printed reports […]
The Digital Archive DisComPoSE will be presented at the ICARUS Convention 33 – European Travel Routes through GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums). The Challenge of Becoming Digital, a result of the scientific collaboration between the Museum of Agricultural Sciences and the Department of Humanities at the University of Naples Federico II. The theme of travel, […]
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 […]
The recently published volume Verba manent. Livelli di cultura in Italia nella prima età moderna (Verba Manent: Levels of Culture in Italy during the Early Modern Period), edited by Vittorio Celotto and Gennaro Schiano, takes its cue from a series of seminars held as part of the DisComPosE activities in the spring of 2021. The […]
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 […]
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 […]
The new collaboration between the researchers of the DisComPoSE project and those of the VeLoci project – Vesuvian Lost Cities before the Discovery: Sources, Experiences, Imagery in the Early Modern Period – began on June 14th 2024, in an evocative location: the crater of Mount Vesuvius. “The Mountain” that dominates the bay of Naples is […]
The collection of essays in the section La società di antico regime e le esperienze della calamità. Memorie, pratiche di risposta (The Society of the Old Regime and Experiences of Calamity: Memories, Response Practices) in issue 2 of 2024 of the Rivista Storica Italiana, aims to evaluate the impact that extreme, seemingly exceptional, or unexpected […]
