Studies in the Medieval Atlantic

This collection of essays offers fresh analysis of topics in the exciting area of Atlantic World studies. Challenging standard assumptions, the essays advance the argument that the Atlantic Ocean was a region that encompassed ethnic and political boundaries, in which a sub-community shaped by culture and commerce arose.

Auteur
Benjamin Hudson is a professor of History and Medieval Studies at Pennsylvania State University.

Contenu
PART I: TRANSNATIONALISM AND ENVIRONMENT Desert Islands: Europe's Archipelago as Ascetic Landscape; A.Siewers Subsistence Whaling and the Western North Atlantic: Norsemen, Basques, and Whale Use; V.Szabo Greenland Norse Knowledge of the North Atlantic Environment; T.Haine PART II: COLONIALISM The Manx Sea Kings and the Western Oceans:The Late Norse Isle of Man in its North Atlantic context, 1079-1265; A.McDonald More Savage than the Sword?: Logistics in the Medieval Atlantic Theatre of War; D.Beougher Into the Atlantic or Into the Mediterranean: Spanish Military Choices in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries; K.DeVries