Monstrous fishes and the Mead-Dark Sea : : whaling in the medieval North Atlantic / / Vicki Ellen Szabo.

• Superior document: The Northern world, v. 35
• Author: Szabo, Vicki Ellen.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2008.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Northern world ; 35.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xx, 326 pages) :; illustrations, maps

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...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Materials / V.E. Szabo
• Introduction Mundane And Marvelous Whales In The Mead-Dark Sea / V.E. Szabo
• Chapter One. Medieval Perceptions Of The Natural World / V.E. Szabo
• Chapter Two. Whales And Whaling From Classical Antiquity To The Middle Ages / V.E. Szabo
• Chapter Three. Whales And North Atlantic Ecology / V.E. Szabo
• Chapter Four. Whalers And North Atlantic Ethnography / V.E. Szabo
• Images / V.E. Szabo
• Chapter Five. Archaeological Approaches To North Atlantic Whale Use / V.E. Szabo
• Chapter Six. From Krakens To Fish Drivers: Monstrous Fishes In North Atlantic History And Literature / V.E. Szabo
• Chapter Seven. Blubber Missiles And Whale Riders: Mundane Fishes And The Sagas / V.E. Szabo
• Chapter Eight. Hidden Harpoons And Poached Whales: Mundane Fishes In North Atlantic Laws / V.E. Szabo
• Conclusion From Medieval To Modern: The Legacy Of Premodern Whaling / V.E. Szabo
• Appendix Mysticete. And Odontocete—Whales Of Thenorth Atlantic / V.E. Szabo
• Bibliography / V.E. Szabo
• Index / V.E. Szabo.