The cold in Holland in the Golden Age : essay of a cultural geoclimatology ; Le froid en Hollande au Siècle d'or : essai de géoclimatologie culturelle

This Ph.D dissertation aims at showing that cultural geography is relevant for geoclimatological studies. At the crossroad of many subfields in geography (climatology, historical geography, cultural geography…) and in history (history of climate, history of art…), it focuses on cold weather and its representations in the Netherlands during the XVIIth century. This period takes place during the Little Ice Age (c. 1300-1850), a limited climatic period, characterized by a cooling of the temperatures in Europe. The analysis of Dutch paintings and written sources with a geoclimatologist’s view poin... Mehr ...