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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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The early medieval North Atlantic
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Early medieval North Atlantic.
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| Summary |
Val Dufeu here reconstructs settlement patterns of fishing communities in Viking Age Iceland and proposes socio-economic and environmental models relevant to any study of the Vikings or the North Atlantic. She integrates written sources, geoarchaeological data, and zooarchaeological data to examine how fishing propelled political change in the North Atlantic. The evolution of survival fishing to internal fish markets to overseas fish trade mirrors wider social changes in the Vikings? world. |
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Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; I Introduction; Fishing in the North Atlantic Scandinavian World: A Human-Environment Approach to the Role and Place of Iceland and the Faeroes; II Reviewing Viking Studies and North Atlantic Realm Archaeological Research; Iceland; Archaeological Research and Environmental Sciences Studies Related to Fish in Viking Age and Medieval Iceland; The Faeroes; The Faeroes and Environmental Sciences Research; Archaeo-ichthyological Research; Fishing and Fishing Communities: Anthropological, Archaeological and Historical Approaches. |
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III Interdisciplinarity and Environmental History: Setting the MethodologyPrimary Sources; Environmental History and Theories; Consilience; Historicism, Materialism, Functionalism and Behaviourism; Economics and Anthropology; Environmental Archives; Geoarchaeology and Micromorphology; Zooarchaeology; A Holistic Approach; IV Sagas and Archives; Part 1: Icelandic and Faeroese primary sources and the writing of history; Sagas; Íslendinga sögur, The Sagas of the Icelanders; Landnámabók or Book of Settlement; Grágás and Íslendingabók; Church & Public Records: Diplomatarium Islandicum. |
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Part 2: Reading the sources thematicallyExploiting Sea and Rivers; Fishermen and Those involved in Fishing; Traders and Commercial Partnerships; Ship and Cargo; Icelanders and Norwegian kings; V Modelling the Exploitation of Aquatic Resources and the Emergence of Commercial Fishing in Iceland and the Faeroes; The Climate and Geography of Iceland; The Climate and Geography of the Faeroes; Marginality and Rationality as a Conceptual Framework; Marginality: Adaptation and Resilience; Behaviour and Rationality; Environmental Factors and the Norse Pioneers of Iceland and the Faeroes. |
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Environmental Determinism and the Settlement of Iceland and the FaeroesResource Possibilism and the Settlement of Iceland and the Faeroes; Exploitation of Aquatic Systems; Icelandic and Faeroes Waters; Off shore, Inshore and Riverine Fish Resources; Marine Species; Riverine Species; Economic Commonwealth: Core and Periphery within the North Atlantic Realm; Economic Patterns from the Later Iron Age to the Medieval ƯPeriod; Emergence of an Original Icelandic Economy or Scandinavian Continuity?; An Atlantic Economic Commonwealth; Emergence of Specialised Workers. |
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Exploiting Renewable Resources for Commercial PurposesIcelandic and Faeroese Merchants?; Regulating the Trade and Fishing Rights: Sea and Riverine Rights; Trading Network; National-Regional Trade, Markets and Fair: Alþíng og Þíng; Fishing and Settlement Patterns; High Status Farm -- Coastal and Inland; Mid-Rank Farm; Fishing Stations; Gender Exploitation of Ecosystems; Church and Fish; Icelandic Seafaring; Navigation Skills; Ship and Seafaring Regulations; Iceland and the European Fish Markets; VI Geoarchaeology of the Emergence of Commercial Fishing. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-249) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Fish trade -- North Atlantic Region -- History.
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Fish trade. |
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North Atlantic Region. |
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History. |
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Fishing villages -- North Atlantic Region.
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Fishing villages. |
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Commerce -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500.
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500-1500 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Print version: DUFEU, VAL. FISH TRADE IN MEDIEVAL NORTH ATLANTIC SOCIETIES. [Place of publication not identified] : AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRES, 2018 9462983216 (OCoLC)1017599721 |
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9789048533145 (electronic book) |
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9048533147 (electronic book) |
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9462983216 |
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9789462983212 |
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