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Chapter 1
Between the Queen of the South Sea and the Spirit of Mount Merapi – political and cosmological
dimensions of the Central Java earthquake in 2006
Chapter 2
Mount Etna, Sicily: Vulnerability and Resilience during the pre-Industrial era
Chapter 3
The unknown AD 1275 stratospheric eruption: Climatic Impacts in Europe and tentative volcanic
source
Chapter 4
What happens when ‘Hider’ and ‘Screamer’ go sailing with ‘Noisy’? Geomythological traces in Old
Icelandic mythology
Chapter 5
Volcanoes as cultural artefacts in Iceland: Risk perception, metaphors and categorisation in a society
with no ‘before’
Chapter 6
Excavating the Fimbulwinter? Archaeology, geomythology and the climate event(s) of AD 536
Chapter 7
Islam on Volcanoes: Rediscovering volcanic eruptions in the Qur’an
Chapter 8
Coping with Disasters in Antiquity and the Bible: Practical and mental strategies
Chapter 9
The Santorini volcano: Volcanic hazards through time
Chapter 10
‘The Boneless One’ and his home: The sea and its inhabitants in religious beliefs on Crete and Thera
around 1613 BC
Chapter 11
Can we date the Frog Princess? Volcanoes and peoples of the Pacific Northwest.
Chapter 12
The Days of the Dry Snow: Vulnerabilities and transformations related to the Mazama ash fall on the
Northern Plains
Chapter 13
‘Dominant’ and ‘radical’ perspectives on material culture change in the wake of the catastrophic
Laacher See volcanic eruption (c. 13,000 cal BP) in Northern Europe
Chapter 14
Human vulnerability in a Middle Palaeolithic context: Response of hunter-gatherers in India to the
Toba supervolcanic eruption 74,000 years ago