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Roles of the sea in medieval England

England's relationship with the sea in the later middle ages has been unjustly neglected, a gap which this volume seeks to fill. The physical fact of the kingdom's insularity made the seas around England fundamentally important to its development within the British Isles and in relation to mainland Europe
Print Book, English, 2012
Boydell Press, Woodbridge, U.K., 2012
Aufsatzsammlung
viii, 194 pages, [2] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9781843837015, 1843837013
733248054
Roles of the sea : views from the shore / Richard Gorski
Changes in ship design and construction : England in the European mould / Richard W. Unger
The value of the Cinque Ports to the Crown 1200-1500 / Susan Rose
The contribution of the Cinque Ports to the Wars of Edward II and Edward III : new methodologies and estimates / Craig Lambert
Keeping the seas : England's Admirals, 1369-1389 / David Simpkin
The cost-benefit analysis of a fourteenth-century naval campaign : Margate/Cadzand, 1387 / Tony K. Moore
Piracy and Anglo-Hanseatic relations, 1385-1420 / Marcus Pitcaithly
'Herring of Sligo and Salmon of Bann' : Bristol's maritime trade with Ireland in the fifteenth century / Tim Bowly
How much did the sea matter in medieval England (c.1200-c.1500)? / Ian Friel
"Most of the essays in this volume were first presented at a conference held at Rye [West Sussex] in October 2008"--Page 1