Reading the signs: disaster, apocalypse and demonology in European print culture, 1450-1700

宗教身份和信仰对于理解、解释、控制和利用早期现代欧洲文化中的自然灾害至关重要。今天，宗教继续影响着对气候变化、干旱和流行病等现象的反应。通过探索宗教对自然灾害的反应，该项目将促进澳大利亚在早期欧洲研究方面的高国际声誉，并为当代公众讨论自然灾害及其产生的恐惧提供新的视角。它将促进跨机构的研究，并通过举办大型公共展览，提高人们对澳大利亚丰富的艺术和历史收藏的认识。

Religious identity and belief have been critical to understanding, explaining, controlling and also exploiting natural disaster within the cultures of early modern Europe. Religion continues to shape responses today to phenomena such as climate change, drought and pandemic. By exploring religious responses to natural disaster, this project will both promote Australia's high international reputation for early European research, and also offer new perspectives for contemporary public discussion of natural disasters and the fears they generate. It will foster cross-institutional research, and in mounting a major public exhibition, promote awareness of Australia's rich artistic and historical collections.