This page presents the results of a challenge at the "Environments in and as Networks" hackathon, held from April 15 to 17, 2026 in Potsdam, Germany. The challenge was initiated by the Emmy Noether Research Group "Traces of the 'Little Ice Age' in Early Modern Literature" and aimed to explore and visualize the connections between early modern texts and historical weather conditions.
We focused on weather-related sermons, situating them in relation to historical weather conditions and tracing the connections between sermons through the weather phenomena they address and the Bible passages they cite. As an additional and unexpected outcome, we developed the Sermon Generator — a chatbot that suggests which Bible passages might serve as particularly fitting reference points for composing your own weather sermon.
▪ Joana van de Löcht, Marvin Asmussen, Anne Ramin (LitLIA Project, University of Münster)
▪ Luca Giovannini (Digital Humanities Network, University of Potsdam)
Interactive map and timeline correlating early modern sermons with historical weather events across Central Europe.
Open →Network graphs of Bible citation patterns across the corpus — bipartite and tripartite views.
Open →A chat-based tool for retrieving Bible passages relevant to historical weather phenomena.
Open →Last update: 21.04.2026.
This website is a prototype and is not actively maintained.