The catch : an environmental history of medieval European fisheries
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The catch : an environmental history of medieval European fisheries
(Studies in environment and history)
Cambridge University Press, 2023
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 420-541) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This definitive environmental history of medieval fish and fisheries provides a comprehensive examination of European engagement with aquatic systems between c. 500 and 1500 CE. Using textual, zooarchaeological, and natural records, Richard C. Hoffmann's unique study spans marine and freshwater fisheries across western Christendom, discusses effects of human-nature relations and presents a deeper understanding of evolving European aquatic ecosystems. Changing climates, landscapes, and fishing pressures affected local stocks enough to shift values of fish, fishing rights, and dietary expectations. Readers learn what the abbess Waldetrudis in seventh-century Hainault, King Ramiro II (d.1157) of Aragon, and thirteenth-century physician Aldebrandin of Siena shared with English antiquarian William Worcester (d. 1482), and the young Martin Luther growing up in Germany soon thereafter. Sturgeon and herring, carp, cod, and tuna played distinctive roles. Hoffmann highlights how encounters between medieval Europeans and fish had consequences for society and the environment - then and now.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Considering fisheries: medieval Europe and its legacies
- 1. 'Natural' aquatic ecosystems around Late Holocene Europe
- 2. Protein, penance, and prestige: medieval demand for fish
- 3. Take and eat: subsistence fishing in and beyond the Early Middle Ages
- 4. Master artisans and local markets
- 5. Aquatic systems under stress, ca. 1000-1350
- 6. Cultural responses to scarcities of fish
- 7. Going beyond natural local ecosystems I: carp aquaculture as ecological revolution
- 8. Going beyond natural local ecosystems II: over the horizon toward abundance and 'tragedy'
- 9. Last casts: two perspectives on past environmental relations.
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