The Fraternity of the Sea: Family, Friendship and Fishermen in Colonial Massachusetts, 1750–1775

Magra, Christopher P.

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“…Nonetheless, a recent study of the eighteenth century New England cod fi sheries, has pointed towards kinship and fraternity as highly formative for the composition of crews on commercial fi shing vessels. To a large extent family members fi shed together on separate vessels, as well as operating on board the same vessels (Magra 2010 ). This is echoed in a study of the Dutch North Sea herring fi sheries, where a well-developed co-operative behaviour at sea seems to have been particularly strong when vessels from the same town fi shed together (Poulsen 2008b ).…”

Section: Assessing Fishermen's Status and Skillsmentioning

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Human Archives: Historians’ Methodologies and Past Marine Resource Use

Poulsen

2016

Perspectives on Oceans Past

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Human Archives: Historians’ Methodologies and Past Marine Resource Use

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2016

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The Single Life in the Roman and Later Roman World

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Laes²

2019

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What's in a Single? Roman Antiquity and a Comparative World Approach* Christian Laes  A 'Marriage' between Philology and Social History Raised in the rich and established tradition of Altertumswissenschaft, classicists and ancient historians are used to working with concepts and terms, the exact definition of which can be traced down by means of encyclopaedias, lexica and dictionaries. Rem tene, verba sequentur. Only after having searched for accurate definitions can one safely proceed with the research topic. In such a context, the very first thing to do in a volume on The Single Life in the Roman and Later Roman World would be to look for what is meant precisely when we use the word 'single', then to search for Greek and Latin terms matching this definition (and in a comparative perspective also words in other well attested languages of the ancient Mediterranean such as Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic), and finally to carefully study the text fragments where such words show up. Though this task may appear both manageable and straightforward, things are not as simple as they appear at first sight. First, the present-day concept. There is at least a certain ambiguity in the use of terms. Derived from the Old French sengle, which in its turn stems from the Latin singuli, the word 'single' refers to a person not married, or not having an exclusive relationship with someone.  Nowadays, most Germanic languages have taken over the English term, while words such as alleinstehend (German) or alleenstaand (Dutch) connote the condition of living alone or even loneliness. Indeed, the word 'single' has become increasingly popular as an untranslated term in many languages. * I am most grateful to John Martens (University of St Thomas-Minnesota) for his careful reading and improving of my English text.  It would make little sense to encumber this chapter with references to dictionaries for each language concerned. Suffice it to notice that I have made use of well-established dictionaries for each language concerned. For Arabic, Aramaic and Hebrew, I kindly acknowledge the help of Malika Dekkiche

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What’s in a Single? Roman Antiquity and a Comparative World Approach*

Laes¹

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The Single Life in the Roman and Later Roman World

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The Fraternity of the Sea: Family, Friendship and Fishermen in Colonial Massachusetts, 1750–1775

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Human Archives: Historians’ Methodologies and Past Marine Resource Use

The Single Life in the Roman and Later Roman World

What’s in a Single? Roman Antiquity and a Comparative World Approach*

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