Dangerous Tides
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Edited by:
Ulrike Gehring
About this book
The dangers and risks lurking in the deep waters of the world, be they profane and natural (storms, currents, shoals, cliffs, pirates) or divine and supernatural (the wrath of one or more gods, magic, sea monsters) are as individual and diverse as the stories of their consequences – and as numerous as the intentions behind these retellings and reconfigurations. In their telling, specific dangers become accepted risks that those who undertake the venture of a sea voyage choose (or not) to expose themselves to. Maritime actors make their assessments of the balance between risk and benefit according to historical and contemporary cultural criteria, which are contingent on the discursive horizon of their time, as reflected in iconographic and textual sources. Building on sociological and historical understandings of "risk" as conscious exposure to specific dangers, the case studies in this volume engage with conceptions and discourses of maritime risks in written and visual media from antiquity to the early modern world, with contributions ranging from early Greek epic to British Atlantic merchants in the 1700s. This broad perspective enables a multifaceted study of representations of maritime dangers in words, images, and numbers, and to discuss contemporary discourses on causes, consequences, and methods for avoidance of maritime risk.
Author / Editor information
Ulrike Gehring; Simon Karstens; Christian Rollinger, Universität Trier, Germany.
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Frontmatter
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Foreword
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Series Editors’ Preface
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Contents
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Dangerous Tides – An Introduction to Maritime Dangers and Risks
1 - Describing and Narrating
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1 Describing and Narrating
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The Sea as Discourse: Preliminary Reflections on Dealing with Maritime Risks in Antiquity
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A Graphic Narrative of Maritime Risk Management: The Torlonia Relief
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How to Navigate Among Sea Monsters, Ocean Eddies, and Mischievous Pirates: Depictions and Levels of Meaning of Maritime Dangers on Olaus’ Magnus Carta Marina
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When Taking Risks Becomes a Matter of Honour: A Comparison of French and English Early Modern Travel Narratives around 1600
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On the Risks of Sea Voyages: The Sea as a Danger Zone in (Travel) Accounts of German Soldiers Serving the Dutch East India Company (VOC)
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2 Evaluating and Managing
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The Most Perilous Region of Ancient Sea: Confronting and Overcoming the Hazards of the Gulf of Syrtis
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Controlling the Corrupting Sea: Maritime Rituals and Greek Thalassocracy
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Dangers of the Sea Reflected in Early Modern News Media: The Fugger Newsletters
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Dangers at Sea: Artistic and Nautical Means of Risk Mapping
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“Such Precautions of Safety”: Rational Strategies for Managing Physical Risk on British Atlantic Merchant Ships, 1600–1800
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Index
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