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Fish on Friday : feasting, fasting, and the discovery of the New World / Brian Fagan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Basic Books, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: xxv, 338 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0465022847
  • 9780465022847
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 639.22097 22
LOC classification:
  • SH219 .F34 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Preface -- Author's note -- Recipes -- Timeline of major events -- pt. 1. The great atonement -- 1. The big fish -- 2. Mortification of the flesh -- pt. 2. The fish industry is born -- 3. "By the aid of God's grace" -- 4. Salt upon salt : preserving the catch -- 5. Gadus Morhua -- 6. The Northmen -- 7. The ant of the sea -- 8. The power of invention -- 9. The carp bubble -- 10. The sin of gluttony -- 11. The boat lost to history -- 12. The rise and fall of the Icelandic fishery -- pt. 3. Discovery -- 13. "Serche & fynde a certain isle" -- 14. A new found lande -- pt. 4. Harvest and settlement -- 15. The migrant fishery -- 16. "Great store of cod-fish" -- 17. Puritans and Cains -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Recipe references -- Index.
Review: "Fish on Friday tells a new story of the discovery of America. In Brian Fagan's view, that discovery is the product of the long sweep of history: the spread of Christianity and the radical cultural changes it brought to Europe, the interaction of economic necessity with a changing climate, and generations of unknown fishermen who explored the North Atlantic in the centuries before Columbus. The Church's tradition of not eating meats on holy days created a vast market for fish that could not be fully satisfied by fish farms, better boats, or new preservation techniques. Then, when climate change in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries diminished fish stocks off Norway and Iceland, fishermen were forced to range ever farther to the west - eventually discovering incredibly rich shoals within sight of Newfoundland."--Jacket.Review: "Fish on Friday tells a new story of the discovery of America. In Brian Fagan's view, that discovery is the product of the long sweep of history: the spread of Christianity and the radical cultural changes it brought to Europe, the interaction of economic necessity with a changing climate, and generations of unknown fishermen who explored the North Atlantic in the centuries before Columbus. The Church's tradition of not eating meats on holy days created a vast market for fish that could not be fully satisfied by fish farms, better boats, or new preservation techniques. Then, when climate change in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries diminished fish stocks off Norway and Iceland, fishermen were forced to range ever farther to the west - eventually discovering incredibly rich shoals within sight of Newfoundland."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-324) and index.

Preface -- Author's note -- Recipes -- Timeline of major events -- pt. 1. The great atonement -- 1. The big fish -- 2. Mortification of the flesh -- pt. 2. The fish industry is born -- 3. "By the aid of God's grace" -- 4. Salt upon salt : preserving the catch -- 5. Gadus Morhua -- 6. The Northmen -- 7. The ant of the sea -- 8. The power of invention -- 9. The carp bubble -- 10. The sin of gluttony -- 11. The boat lost to history -- 12. The rise and fall of the Icelandic fishery -- pt. 3. Discovery -- 13. "Serche & fynde a certain isle" -- 14. A new found lande -- pt. 4. Harvest and settlement -- 15. The migrant fishery -- 16. "Great store of cod-fish" -- 17. Puritans and Cains -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Recipe references -- Index.

"Fish on Friday tells a new story of the discovery of America. In Brian Fagan's view, that discovery is the product of the long sweep of history: the spread of Christianity and the radical cultural changes it brought to Europe, the interaction of economic necessity with a changing climate, and generations of unknown fishermen who explored the North Atlantic in the centuries before Columbus. The Church's tradition of not eating meats on holy days created a vast market for fish that could not be fully satisfied by fish farms, better boats, or new preservation techniques. Then, when climate change in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries diminished fish stocks off Norway and Iceland, fishermen were forced to range ever farther to the west - eventually discovering incredibly rich shoals within sight of Newfoundland."--Jacket.

"Fish on Friday tells a new story of the discovery of America. In Brian Fagan's view, that discovery is the product of the long sweep of history: the spread of Christianity and the radical cultural changes it brought to Europe, the interaction of economic necessity with a changing climate, and generations of unknown fishermen who explored the North Atlantic in the centuries before Columbus. The Church's tradition of not eating meats on holy days created a vast market for fish that could not be fully satisfied by fish farms, better boats, or new preservation techniques. Then, when climate change in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries diminished fish stocks off Norway and Iceland, fishermen were forced to range ever farther to the west - eventually discovering incredibly rich shoals within sight of Newfoundland."--BOOK JACKET.

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