Richard C. Hoffmann (Toronto York University)

The Catch

An Environmental History of Medieval European Fisheries

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By bringing human-nature interactions to the centre of medieval history, Richard C. Hoffmann provides a reassessment of European life from c. 500 to 1500 CE. This rich study deepens understanding of long and short-term changes in Europe's human society, aquatic organisms, and ecosystems under pressures of natural and human origin.

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Produktdetails

• Studies in Environment and History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 870g
• ISBN-13: 9781108958202
• ISBN-10: 1108958206
• Artikelnr.: 66399707

Autorenporträt

Richard Hoffmann is Professor Emeritus in History at York University, Toronto, and author of the acclaimed An Environmental History of Medieval Europe (Cambridge, 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Considering fisheries: medieval Europe and its legacies
1. 'Natural' aquatic ecosystems around Late Holocene Europe
2. Protein, penance, and prestige: medieval demand for fish
3. Take and eat: subsistence fishing in and beyond the Early Middle Ages
4. Master artisans and local markets
5. Aquatic systems under stress, ca. 1000-1350
6. Cultural responses to scarcities of fish
7. Going beyond natural local ecosystems I: carp aquaculture as ecological revolution
8. Going beyond natural local ecosystems II: over the horizon toward abundance and 'tragedy'
9. Last casts: two perspectives on past environmental relations.