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- Title
Von einer Strafe Gottes zu einem versicherbaren Risiko. Bemerkungen zum Wandel der Wahrnehmung von Hagelschlag in der Frühen Neuzeit.
- Authors
Oberholzner, Frank
- Abstract
The article discusses the risks attendant to agriculture, in particular the damage potential of a hailstorm, which can ruin a year's worth of agricultural labor in a few minutes. The author investigates agrarian hail insurance, the risk calculations upon which it is based, and the potential of setting of separate premiums for each agricultural plot. The history of references to hail in agriculture is traced from Biblical through ancient Grecian and medieval sources and superstitions. Particularly focused on are the changes in perceptions of hail as revealed in the theological tracts and natural scientific experiments of the early modern age.
- Subjects
HAIL; HAIL insurance; AGRICULTURAL climatology; WEATHER &; society; METEOROLOGICAL precipitation; RISK (Insurance); HISTORY
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Agrargeschichte und Agrarsoziologie, 2010, Vol 58, Issue 1, p92
- ISSN
0044-2194
- Publication type
Article