This collection of essays offers fresh analysis of topics in the exciting area of Atlantic World studies. Challenging standard assumptions, the essays advance the argument that the Atlantic Ocean was a region that encompassed ethnic and political boundaries, in which a sub-community shaped by culture and commerce arose.
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PART I: TRANSNATIONALISM AND ENVIRONMENT Desert Islands: Europe’s Archipelago as Ascetic Landscape; A.Siewers Subsistence Whaling and the Western North Atlantic: Norsemen, Basques, and Whale Use; V.Szabo Greenland Norse Knowledge of the North Atlantic Environment; T.Haine PART II: COLONIALISM The Manx Sea Kings and the Western Oceans:The Late Norse Isle of Man in its North Atlantic context, 1079-1265; A.Mc Donald More Savage than the Sword?: Logistics in the Medieval Atlantic Theatre of War; D.Beougher Into the Atlantic or Into the Mediterranean: Spanish Military Choices in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries; K.De Vries
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Benjamin Hudson is a professor of History and Medieval Studies at Pennsylvania State University.
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