Transfer between sea and land : Maritime vessels for cultural exchanges in the Early Modern Period / edited by Simone Kahlow.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Intro; List of Figures, Sources and Permission; Notes of contributers; Foreword by the State Archaeologist of Bremen; Uta Halle; Introduction: Maritime Vessels and Their Significance for Early Modern Cultural Exchange; Simone Kahlow; Asian Objects in Europe; Ways of Transcontinental Intertwining in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period; Gerson H. Jeute; A Contribution to the Study of Global Trade Routes in the Post Medieval Period; 'Nuremberg wares' from Venetian Shipwrecks in the Eastern Adriatic; Patrick Cassitti; With the Warship Kronan in the Wake of Paracelsus.

Archaeological Finds Reflecting the Conception of Drugs in Seventeenth-Century SwedenBjörn Lindeke & Bo Ohlson; Exotic Animals; Thoughts about Supply and Demand Based on Archaeological Finds; Simone Kahlow; The Lloydś List; A Global Intelligence Unit?; Stefan Geissler; Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Shipbuilding; Anne-Kathrin Piele; Index; Blank Page.

Questions about the cultural exchange of both knowledge and material goods are just as topical today as in years gone by. These questions have gained increasing attention from scholars since the 1980s when the term 'transfers cultures' by historians arose. However, this book provides a completely new approach in this context by interdisciplinary investigation of cultural exchanges based on chosen objects from shipwrecks and land, significant written documents and verifiable transfer of knowledge. The publication combines studies from humanities and natural sciences. Thus, historians, archaeolo.

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