Monstrous Fishes and the Mead-Dark Sea: Whaling in the Medieval North Atlantic by Vicki E. Szabo

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Monstrous Fishes and the Mead-Dark Sea: Whaling in the Medieval North Atlantic

Vicki E. Szabo

326 pages hardcover

1 edition

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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Medieval people viewed whales in complex and contradictory ways, from marvelous to monstrous to mundane, heaven-sent or hell-bent. Despite this, whales are conspicuous in their absence from most historical and archaeological dialogues on the Middl...

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