The second session began by going back to the question of narrative and different arts to prepare the first discussion of a number of texts reaching from the Bible, Thucydides’ Peloponesian War, Boccaccio’s Deccamerone, and Montaigne’s Essay On practice. We asked ourselves what an event is, a questions that poses itself in a paradigmatic way in narrations about accidents and catastrophes. characteristics such as excess and irreversibility were analyzed. Through a large number of texts, we tried to understand how accidents and catastrophes are interpreted and represented by different canonic literary traditions as part of the divine order. Through the construction of an intention as framework, traditional accounts make the scandal of a damaging, vehement event less virulent. They absorb the shocking consequences and therefore act against contingency. At the same time, the course traced how in modern experience in Montaigne problematizes this construction and formulates an experience that remains a problem by first representing it as unavailable to the subject. Detailed historic context was necessary for each of these authors in order to understand how they relate to the events represented, ranging from the religious wars in Montaigne|s time to the Bible as a text. We also tried to understand the interacts aspects of these texts bz considering institutions, rites, and visual representations referenced in them more closely.