The catch : an environmental history of medieval European fisheries

1. Verfasser: Hoffmann, Richard C. (Richard Charles), 1943- , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Umfang/Format: xxvi, 556 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Studies in environment and history
ISBN: 9781108845465
1108845460
9781108958202
1108958206
Schlagworte:
Parallelausgabe: Hoffmann, Richard C. (Richard Charles), 1943-, Catch (Online version:) | ISSN: 9781108955898
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction : Considering fisheries : medieval Europe and its legacies
  • "Natural" aquatic ecosystems around late Holocene Europe
  • Protein, penance, and prestige : medieval demand for fish
  • Take and eat : subsistence fishing in and beyond the early Middle Ages
  • Master artisans and local markets
  • Aquatic systems under stress, c. 1000-1350
  • Cultural responses to scarcities of fish
  • Going beyond natural local ecosystems, I : carp aquaculture as ecological revolution
  • Going beyond natural local ecosystems, II : over the horizon toward abundance and 'tragedy'
  • Last casts : two perspectives on past environmental relations.