Beyond the catch : fisheries of the North Atlantic, the North Sea and the Baltic, 900-1850
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Beyond the catch : fisheries of the North Atlantic, the North Sea and the Baltic, 900-1850
(The northern world : North Europe and the Baltic c. 400-1700 A.D. : peoples, economies and cultures, v. 41)
Brill, 2009
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Drawing on archaeological and written sources, this collection of essays presents fascinating new interpretations in the history of the fisheries by highlighting the consequences of the northern fisheries through interdisciplinary approaches to various themes, including the environment, economy, politics, and society in the medieval and early modern periods.
Table of Contents
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List of Contributors
Introduction
Section One Landscape, Settlements and Spatial Organization
1. 'Dark Age Economics' revisited: the English Fish-Bone Evidence 600-1600
2. Viking Age Economics and the Origins of Commercial Cod Fisheries in the North Atlantic
3. Undertsanding a MEdieval Fishing Settlement along the Southern North Sea: Walraversijde, c. 1200-1630
4. Transformation of the MAritime Culturak Landscape of Atalntic Cnada by Migratory European Fishermen, 1500-1800
Section Two Trade, Profitability and Taxation
5. The Medieval Herring Fishery in the Western Baltic
6.Fish, Stock and Barrel. Changes in the Stockfish Trade in Northern Europe, c. 1360-1560
7. The 'Golden Mountain': An Economic Analysis of Holland's Early Modern Herring Fisheries
8. The Evolution of Portugese Fisheries in the Medieval and Early Modern Period. A Fiscal Approach
Section Three Consumption, Communication and Cooperation
9.Carp in teh City. Fish-Farming Ponds and Urban Dynamics in Brabant and Hainaut, c. 1100-1500
10. Fish for Feast and Fast. Fish Consumption in the Netherlands in the Late Middle Ages
11. 'Our Triumph of Holland'. War, Violence, and the Herring Fishery of the Low Countries, c. 1400-1650
12. Women in Dutch Fishing Communities. The Cases of Ter Heijde and Maassluis, c. 1600-1700
13. Talking Fish. Co-operation and Communication in teh Dutch North Sea Herring Fisheries, c. 1600-1850
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