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Monstrous fishes and the Mead-Dark Sea : whaling in the medieval North Atlantic /
Medieval people viewed whales in complex and contradictory ways, as marvelous, monstrous or mundane, heaven-sent or hell-bent.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2008.
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| Colección: | Northern world ;
v. 35. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Illustrations; Maps; Chronology; Acknowledgements; Introduction Mundane and Marvelous Whales in the Mead-Dark Sea; Chapter One Medieval Perceptions of the Natural World; Chapter Two Whales and Whaling from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages; Chapter Three Whales and North Atlantic Ecology; Chapter Four Whalers and North Atlantic Ethnography; Chapter Five Archaeological Approaches to North Atlantic Whale Use; Chapter Six From Krakens to Fish Drivers: Monstrous Fishes in North Atlantic History and Literature.