Red lights in the sky, hunger in sight. Aurora borealis and famine between experience and rhetoric in the early Middle Ages. by Andrea Maraschi

“…The purpose of the present paper is to analyse the mental and cultural attitudes of early medieval people towards one celestial “unidentified” phenomenon: aurora borealis. Celestial signs were often – but not always - interpreted on the basis of biblical prophecies, as visible words through which God forewarned humanity of future major events like the death of a king, pestilence, or famine. …”
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