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“Bad to the bone”? The Unnatural History of Monstrous Medieval Whales (2005)

Szabo, Vicki Ellen (Author)

The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe
Volume: 8
Publication date: 2005
Language: English

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Natural history Teratology; monsters Fisheries; fishing Whales Medieval Northern Europe Atlantic Ocean

The image of the monstrous whale pervades most medieval textual traditions on cetaceans, but historians have not explored the impact of these cultural perceptions on the use of whales in the medieval world. This paper considers how concepts of the monstrous whale impacted, if at all, the use of whales in the medieval North Atlantic.

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