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The entry of the Milanese prince’s daughter Ippolita Maria Sforza into Naples on September 14, 1465, on the occasion of her marriage to King Ferdinand’s son, is remarkable above all for an atmospheric-optical anomaly: the sun turned blue during those days and changed to other colours as well. This p...
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Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung
2024
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.17885/heiup.mial.2024.1.24964 https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/mial/article/view/24964 |
| Summary: | The entry of the Milanese prince’s daughter Ippolita Maria Sforza into Naples on September 14, 1465, on the occasion of her marriage to King Ferdinand’s son, is remarkable above all for an atmospheric-optical anomaly: the sun turned blue during those days and changed to other colours as well. This phenomenon is carefully observed and commented on by contemporaries, but hardly interpreted. The blue sun could be seen not only in Naples but in large parts of Europe, as numerous sources from the Aegean to northern Germany show. Three possibilities suggest themselves as factual explanations: a large volcanic eruption that released sulphur aerosols into the atmosphere, large forest fires, or Saharan dust storms; the volcanic scenario is the most likely, although so far no consensus can be established between data from ice core research, dendroclimatology, and historical research. It is interesting that the interpretative possibilities of 15th-century contemporaries are overwhelmed by a phenomenon for which ... : Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung, Bd. 29 Nr. 1 (2024): Verschränkte Welt. Medien, Modelle und Diskurse mittelalterlicher Meteorologie ... |
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