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.

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.