4 septembre 2016
MAD, « Call for papers: Walruses, Whales and Narwhals Maritime Ivories in Western Europe, 900-1500 (Kalamazoo 2017) », Medieval Animal Data-Network, ID : 10670/1.ay5069
Viking whalebone plaque from Lilleberge in Norway, 9th Century AD (British Museum) In the history of carved ivories, maritime mammals have often been eclipsed by the elephant, considered as a nobler ivory to which walrus or whale ivory would only be a poor man's substitute. But this historiographical view is not without its shortcomings, as not only did walrus hunting play a significant role in the first European explorations toward the west, but the trade for those ivories went as far as the...