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Chapter 28 - Disasters and Divine Wrath

Antioch in the Homilies and Histories of Late Antiquity

from Part V - Crises and Resilience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2024

By
Merle Eisenberg
Edited by
Andrea U. De Giorgi
Andrea U. De Giorgi
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Florida State University
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Summary

This chapter explores intellectual responses to disasters and the creation and use of the disaster-divine wrath discourse as it spread from homilies to histories over time. It argues for centering human responses to disaster as the way forward using critical disaster theory.

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AntiochHomiliesChroniclesDisasters
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Antioch on the Orontes
History, Society, Ecology, and Visual Culture
 , pp. 451 - 463
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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