Aquatic Animals and Monsters of the Northern Seas: Programme (Cerisy-La-Salle, May 31-June 2017)

Carta Marina, Olaus Magnus, 1539 The Colloquium is devoted to the history of fish, aquatic monsters and mammals in the northern seas (the English Channel, North Sea, Baltic Sea, Norwegian Sea, the North Atlantic), from antiquity to 1600. The colloquium is structured in five topics: Zoological Knowle...

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Main Author: Thierry Buquet
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Published: Medieval Animal Data-Network 2017
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Online Access:http://mad.hypotheses.org/950
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Summary:Carta Marina, Olaus Magnus, 1539 The Colloquium is devoted to the history of fish, aquatic monsters and mammals in the northern seas (the English Channel, North Sea, Baltic Sea, Norwegian Sea, the North Atlantic), from antiquity to 1600. The colloquium is structured in five topics: Zoological Knowledge: Naming Describing, Identifying Sea products: fishing, eating, transforming Iconography: representing marine animals through centuries Between fantasy and reality: marine creatures in .