What was a disaster for women and men in early modern Europe? What were the causes and possible remedies? Through which social, cultural and linguistic processes, the individual experiences and memories of survivors and witnesses were converted into shared readings? How did these readings shape the responses that the institutions and the different social actors offered to the affected communities? If the factors of a disaster reside in society at least as much as in the natural environment, in the aftermath of a catastrophe, in the management of the crisis and in the initiation of reconstruction, both the modes of circulation of information and the texts through which stories and memories take shape play a crucial role in the management of the crisis and in the initiation of reconstruction. Starting from these considerations, DisComPoSE