The Studies in the Medieval Atlantic.
This collection of essays offers fresh analysis of topics in the exciting area of Atlantic World studies. Challenging standard assumptions, the essays advance the argument that the Atlantic Ocean was a region that encompassed ethnic and political boundaries, in which a sub-community shaped by cultur...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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New York : Palgrave Macmillan,
2012
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | The New Middle Ages Ser.
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| Schlagworte: | Europe-History-476-1492 Electronic books Atlantischer Raum Geschichte 900-1640 |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (278 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | This collection of essays offers fresh analysis of topics in the exciting area of Atlantic World studies. Challenging standard assumptions, the essays advance the argument that the Atlantic Ocean was a region that encompassed ethnic and political boundaries, in which a sub-community shaped by culture and commerce arose. Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Abbreviations and Short Titles -- Prologue: The Medieval Atlantic Ocean -- Part I Transnationalism and Environment -- 1. Desert Islands: Europe's Atlantic Archipelago as Ascetic Landscape -- 2. Subsistence Whaling and the Norse Diaspora: Norsemen, Basques, and Whale Use in the Western North Atlantic, ca . AD 900-1640 -- 3. Greenland Norse Knowledge of the North Atlantic Environment -- Part II Colonialism -- 4. Með lögum skal land vort byggja (With Law Shall the Land be Built): Law as a Defining Characteristic of Norse Society in Saga Conf licts and Assembly Sites throughout the Scandinavian North Atlantic -- 5. The Manx Sea Kings and the Western Oceans: The Late Norse Isle of Man in its North Atlantic Context, 1079-1265 -- 6. "More Savage than the Sword": Logistics in the Medieval Atlantic Theater of War -- 7. Into the Atlantic or into the Mediterranean?: Spanish Military Choices in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries -- Select Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (278 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781137062390 1137062398 9780230120839 0230120830 |