Monstrous fishes and the Mead-Dark Sea : : whaling in the medieval North Atlantic / / Vicki Ellen Szabo.
Medieval people viewed whales in complex and contradictory ways, from marvelous to monstrous to mundane, heaven-sent or hell-bent. Despite this, whales are conspicuous in their absence from most historical and archaeological dialogues on the Middle Ages. Drawing upon a wealth of legal, literary and...
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Superior document: | The Northern world, v. 35 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2008. |
Year of Publication: | 2008 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Northern world ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 326 pages) :; illustrations, maps |
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