Alexander's Bathyscaphe. Man and the Sea in the Middle Ages.
Harmonia mundi| N° d'inventaire | 21409 |
| Format | 14.5 X 20 |
| Détails | 211 p., notebook of 8 color plates, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2018 |
| Etat | Nine |
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It is home to the whale that swallowed Jonah, the sirens who lost Ulysses' companions, the monsters Charybdis and Scylla; it serves as the setting for the tragic love of Tristan and Isolde; it is crossed by Alexander's submarine and Saint Brendan's ship... The sea, in the Middle Ages, is a fantasized, legendary, disturbing universe. It is also a central space in the geography and economy of this period. From Viking expeditions to Portuguese explorations, from pirates who scour it to pilgrims embarking for the Holy Land, from the prosperity of Italian or Hanseatic ports to the draining of the Dutch marshes, a whole world is taking shape, which man gradually learns to know, to travel, to exploit, and soon to fight over... Nourished by the most recent research, supported by concrete examples, this work invites us on a long-distance journey, on the tumultuous waves of history.
It is home to the whale that swallowed Jonah, the sirens who lost Ulysses' companions, the monsters Charybdis and Scylla; it serves as the setting for the tragic love of Tristan and Isolde; it is crossed by Alexander's submarine and Saint Brendan's ship... The sea, in the Middle Ages, is a fantasized, legendary, disturbing universe. It is also a central space in the geography and economy of this period. From Viking expeditions to Portuguese explorations, from pirates who scour it to pilgrims embarking for the Holy Land, from the prosperity of Italian or Hanseatic ports to the draining of the Dutch marshes, a whole world is taking shape, which man gradually learns to know, to travel, to exploit, and soon to fight over... Nourished by the most recent research, supported by concrete examples, this work invites us on a long-distance journey, on the tumultuous waves of history.