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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Auteur principal: Hudson, Benjamin T. (Auteur)
Format: Ebook
Langue:English
Publié: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
Titres liés à la collection:The New Middle Ages Ser.
Sujets:Europe-History-476-1492 Electronic books Atlantischer Raum Geschichte 900-1640
Description matérielle:1 online resource (278 pages)
Table des matières:
  • 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 Atlantic5. 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;