Vicki Ellen Szabo
Autor de Monstrous Fishes and the Mead-Dark Sea : Whaling in the Medieval North Atlantic
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Vicki Ellen Szabo, Ph.D. (2000) in Medieval Studies, Cornell University, is an Associate Professor of Ancient and Medieval History at Western Carolina University
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The Haskins Society Journal Studies in Medieval History, Volume 9 1997 (2001) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
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- Szabo, Vicki Ellen
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- Szabo, Vicki
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- Cornell University
Kalamazoo College - Ocupaciones
- historian
environmental historian - Organizaciones
- Western Carolina University
Colgate University
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
International Council for Archaeozoology
Society of Environmental Archaeology
Society for Medieval Archaeology (mostrar todos 9)
Marine Mammal Society
American Society for Environmental History
Medieval Academy of America - Premios y honores
- L. Byrne Waterman Award (2009)
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Unfortunately (or usefully?) Szabo's writing tends towards the studiously accurate. Her writing picks up only in her acknowledgements (sadly typical for academic writing: would that acknowledgements style became more general, and I accuse myself here too) and in her epilogue, which imagines a typical medieval Nordic farm and what follows when a whale is discovered dead on the shore. This careful accuracy is most evident in her use of literary evidence. For her, it's just one more set of data, and her belief in the facts of her data leads her, generally, to measure the sagas or the Physiologus or Albert the Great &c against what we know of cetology. This has its uses, but perhaps we ought to distinguish between interdisciplinary sources and interdisciplinary interpretations: for her interpretations are all of the same sort.
To look into further: the whale steeds of the legendary sagas, ridden into battle by troll women; the Franks casket, one of whose inscriptions has the whale bone speak of its own death [cf. the oyster and parchment Anglo-Saxon riddles, or the Carmina Burana Lament of the Roast Swan:]; the post whale hunt dance of the Feroese to stave off 'pilot whale psychosis'; and the geographic writings of Al-Sharīf al-Idrīs, who traveled to Britain in the twelfth century and was horrified by what he saw.
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