Author: Christiane Villain-GandossiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Medieval Ships and the Birth of Technological Societies: Northern Europe
Author: Christiane Villain-GandossiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Medieval Ships and the Birth of Technological Societies
Author: Christiane Villain-GandossiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
Medieval Ships and the Birth of Technological Societies: Northern Europe
Author: Christiane Villain-GandossiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Medieval Ships and the Birth of Technological Societies: The Mediterranean area and European integration
Author: Christiane Villain-GandossiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Medieval Ships and the Birth of Technological Society
Author: Paul AdamMedieval Technology and Social Change
Author: Lynn White (Jr.)Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195002669
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
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Maritime Societies of the Viking and Medieval World
Author: James H. BarrettPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317247973
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
This book is a study of communities that drew their identity and livelihood from their relationships with water during a pivotal time in the creation of the social, economic and political landscapes of northern Europe. It focuses on the Baltic, North and Irish Seas in the Viking Age (ad 1050–1200), with a few later examples (such as the Scottish Lordship of the Isles) included to help illuminate less well-documented earlier centuries. Individual chapters introduce maritime worlds ranging from the Isle of Man to Gotland — while also touching on the relationships between estate centres, towns, landing places and the sea in the more terrestrially oriented societies that surrounded northern Europe’s main spheres of maritime interaction. It is predominately an archaeological project, but draws no arbitrary lines between the fields of historical archaeology, history and literature. The volume explores the complex relationships between long-range interconnections and distinctive regional identities that are characteristic of maritime societies, seeking to understand communities that were brought into being by their relationships with the sea and who set waves in motion that altered distant shores.
A Maritime Archaeology of Ships
Author: J. R. AdamsPublisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1842172972
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
In the last fifty years the investigation of maritime archaeological sites in the sea, in the coastal zone and in their interconnecting locales, has emerged as one of archaeology's most dynamic and fast developing fields. No longer a niche interest, maritime archaeology is recognised as having central relevance in the integrated study of the human past. Within maritime archaeology the study of watercraft has been understandably prominent and yet their potential is far from exhausted. In this book Jon Adams evaluates key episodes of technical change in the ways that ships were conceived, designed, built, used and disposed of. As technological puzzles they have long confounded explanation but when viewed in the context of the societies in which they were created, mysteries begin to dissolve. Shipbuilding is social practice and as one of the most complex artefacts made, changes in their technology provide a lens through which to view the ideologies, strategies and agency of social change. Adams argues that the harnessing of shipbuilding was one of the ways in which medieval society became modern and, while the primary case studies are historical, he also demonstrates that the relationships between ships and society have key implications for our understanding of prehistory in which seafaring and communication had similarly profound effects on the tide of human affairs.
Medieval Ships and Warfare
Author: Susan RosePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351918494
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
This collection of essays and articles from a wide range of journals is intended to make more accessible to students and scholars some of the most important writing in English in this field from the 1950s to the present day. The volume draws attention to work on both the design and the use of ships in warfare in the period c.1000-c.1500. The collection deals with both the Mediterranean and northern waters in this period and not only makes clear what work has been done in this field but indicates areas where more research is needed.
Maps, Myths, and Men
Author: Kirsten A. SeaverPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804749633
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
The "Vínland Map" first surfaced on the antiquarian market in 1957 and the map's authenticity has been hotly debated ever sincein controversies ranging from the anomalous composition of the ink and the map's lack of provenance to a plethora of historical and cartographical riddles. Maps, Myths, and Men is the first work to address the full range of this debate. Focusing closely on what the map in fact shows, the book contains a critique of the 1965 work The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation; scrutinizes the marketing strategies used in 1957; and covers many aspects of the map that demonstrate it is a modern fake, such as literary evidence and several scientific ink analyses performed between 1967 and 2002. The author explains a number of the riddles and provides evidence for both the identity of the mapmaker and the source of the parchment used, and she applies current knowledge of medieval Norse culture and exploration to counter widespread misinformation about Norse voyages to North America and about the Norse world picture.