Beyond the catch : : fisheries of the North Atlantic, the North Sea and the Baltic, 900-1850 / / edited by Louis Sicking and Darlene Abreu-Ferreira.

• Superior document: The Northern world, v. 41
• TeilnehmendeR: Sicking, Louis, 1966-; Abreu-Ferreira, Darlene.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Northern world ; v. 41.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xix, 422 pages) :; illustrations, maps.
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Current concerns about the survival of marine life and the fishing industry have contributed to a rising interest in their past development. While much of the scholarship is focused on the recent past, this collection of essays presents new interpretations in the pre-industrial history of the fisheries by highlighting the consequences of the northern fisheries through an interdisciplinary approach, including the environment, economy, politics, and society in the medieval and early modern periods. A wide variety of topics related to the fisheries, such as settlement and spatial organisation, processing methods, trade, profitability and taxation, consumption, communication and cooperation, ranging from the Viking Age until industrialisation are dealt with in a long term perspective, offering new insights in the intriguing relationship between marine life and humanity. Contributors are Inês Amorim, James H. Barrett, Christiaan van Bochove, Petra van Dam, Chloé Deligne, Carsten Jahnke, Alison M. Locker, Thomas H. McGovern, Sophia Perdikaris, Marnix Pieters, Peter Pope, Bo Poulsen, Callum M. Roberts, Louis Sicking, Dries Tys, Adri van Vliet, Annette de Wit, Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Materials / L.H.J. Sicking and D. Abreu-Ferreira -- Introduction / Louis Sicking and Darlene Abreu-Ferreira -- Chapter One. ‘Dark Age Economics’ Revisited: The English Fish-Bone Evidence, 600–1600 / James H. Barrett , Alison M. Locker and Callum M. Roberts -- Chapter Two. Viking Age Economics And The Origins Of Commercial Cod Fisheries In The North Atlantic / Sophia Perdikaris and Thomas H. Mcgovern -- Chapter Three. Understanding A Medieval Fishing Settlement Along The Southern North Sea: Walraversijde, C. 1200–1630 / Dries Tys and Marnix Pieters -- Chapter Four. Transformation Of The Maritime Cultural Landscape Of Atlantic Canada By Migratory European Fishermen, 1500–1800 / Peter Pope -- Chapter Five. The Medieval Herring Fishery In The Western Baltic / Carsten Jahnke -- Chapter Six. Fish, Stock And Barrel. Changes In The Stockfish Trade In Northern Europe, C. 1360–1560 / Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz -- Chapter Seven. The ‘Golden Mountain’: An Economic Analysis Of Holland’s Early Modern Herring Fisheries / Christiaan Van Bochove -- Chapter Eight. The Evolution Of Portuguese Fisheries In The Medieval And Early Modern Period A Fiscal Approach / Inês Amorim -- Chapter Nine. Carp In The City Fish-Farming Ponds And Urban Dynamics In Brabant And Hainaut, C. 1100–1500 / Chloé Deligne -- Chapter Ten. Fish For Feast And Fast Fish Consumption In The Netherlands In The Late Middle Ages / Petra J.E.M. Van Dam -- Chapter Eleven. ‘Our Triumph Of Holland’ War, Violence, And The Herring Fishery Of The Low Countries, C. 1400–1650 / Louis Sicking and Adri P. Van Vliet -- Chapter Twelve. Women In Dutch Fishing Communities The Cases Of Ter Heijde And Maassluis, C. 1600–1700 / Annette De Wit -- Chapter Thirteen. Talking Fishco-Operation And Communication In The Dutch North Sea Herring Fisheries, C. 1600–1850 / Bo Poulsen -- Index / L.H.J. Sicking and D. Abreu-Ferreira.