Dangerous tides : perceiving, imagining, and managing maritime risks in ancient and early modern worlds / edited by Ulrike Gehring, Simon Karstens, and Christian Rollinger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gehring, Ulrike, editor.

Karstens, Simon, editor.

Rollinger, Christian, editor.

Series:

TRANSMARE ; v. 1.

TRANSMARE : maritime studies and the movement of people, goods, and ideas from antiquity to the present, 2943-7776 ; volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Danger.

Merchant marine--Safety measures.

Merchant marine.

Merchant marine--History.

Shipping--Safety measures.

Shipping.

Shipping--History.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 284 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2025]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"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"-- De Gruyter Brill

Contents:

Dangerous tides – An introduction to maritime dangers and risks / Ulrike Gehring, Simon Karstens, Christian Rollinger

The sea as discourse : Preliminary reflections on dealing with maritime risks in antiquity / Christian Rollinger

A graphic narrative of maritime risk management : The Torlonia relief / Pascal Arnaud

How to navigate among sea monsters, ocean eddies, and mischievous pirates : Depictions and levels of meaning of maritime dangers on Olaus’ Magnus *Carta Marina* / Jannik Eikmeier

When taking risks becomes a matter of honour : A comparison of French and English early modern travel narratives around 1600 / Simon Karstens

On the risks of sea voyages : The sea as a danger zone in (travel) accounts / Marco Kollenberg

The most perilous region of ancient sea : Confronting and overcoming the hazards of the Gulf of Syrtis / James Beresford

Controlling the corrupting sea : Maritime rituals and Greek thalassocracy / Sandra Blakely

Dangers of the sea reflected in early modern news media : The Fugger newsletters / Mark Häberlein

Dangers at sea : Artistic and nautical means of risk mapping / Ulrike Gehring

“Such precautions of safety” : Rational strategies for managing physical risk on British Atlantic merchant ships, 1600–1800 / Phillip Reid.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed October 21, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version: Dangerous tides

ISBN:

9783111618258

3111618250

9783111617855

3111617858

OCLC:

1528039448

Publisher Number:

CIPO000251081

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license