Description
Book SynopsisDrawing 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.
Trade Review"The book they have assembled is admirable. It not only helps correct the neglect of the early commercial fisheries, but also serves to extend the scholarly horizons of fisheries history in temporal, spatial, topical and interdisciplinary directions", DAVID J. STARKEY University of Hull, in Scottish Historical Review, 90/2, 2011, 318-20 DOI: 10.3366/shr.2011.0041
Table of ContentsList of Ilustrations 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 Index
