Weather Heritage, Scientific Networks and Weather Memory in Seventeenth Century Estonia, Livonia and Curonia
Weather Heritage, Scientific Networks and Weather Memory in Seventeenth Century Estonia, Livonia and Curonia

Summary/Abstract: This article examines how the climate crises of the seventeenth century shaped forms of weather heritage and weather memory in Livonia and Courland, drawing on religious, economic and early scientific literature. It investigates weather-related social practices as expressions of local weather heritage. The study seeks to bridge the gap between literary studies and cultural climatology by asking how past weather events were recorded, transmitted and remembered. It argues that local weather heritage can be understood as a transcultural and trans-social set of practices shared among Estonians, Latvians and Germans, while also being connected to trans-regions and larger knowledge systems.

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