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Medieval Fishing
Brill, 2000; Series: Working with Water in Medieval Europe: Technology and Resource Use
Fresh and salt waters all around medieval Europe harboured many life forms, all then classed by Europeans as ‘fishes’ (pisces). These creatures provided important natural resources for human food, obtained from wild and, later, also domesticated fish populations by medieval fishers using carefully-selected traditional technologies. Most techniques had long been known to Europeans, but as medieval fisheries -- where human material and symbolic culture intersected with aquatic nature -- evolved in response to economic and environmental changes, so did the importance and scale of chosen technologies. The inland, estuarine, and inshore coastal fisheries of medieval Latin Christendom were technical systems which both used and influenced Europe’s hydrology. - [Abstract]
Language: English
DOI: 10.1163/9789047400110_012
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