Table Of ContentRoles of the Sea
in Medieval England
Roles of the Sea
in Medieval England
Edited by
Richard Gorski
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Contents
List of Contributors vii
1. Roles of the Sea: Views from the Shore 1
Richard Gorski
2. Changes in Ship Design and Construction: England in the 25
European Mould
Richard W. Unger
3. The Value of the Cinque Ports to the Crown 1200–1500 41
Susan Rose
4. The Contribution of the Cinque Ports to the Wars of Edward II 59
and Edward III: New Methodologies and Estimates
Craig Lambert
5. Keeping the Seas: England’s Admirals, 1369–1389 79
David Simpkin
6. The Cost–Benefit Analysis of a Fourteenth-Century Naval 103
Campaign: Margate/Cadzand, 1387
Tony K. Moore
7. Piracy and Anglo-Hanseatic Relations, 1385–1420 125
Marcus Pitcaithly
8. ‘Herring of Sligo and Salmon of Bann’: Bristol’s Maritime Trade 147
with Ireland in the Fifteenth Century
Tim Bowly
9. How Much did the Sea Matter in Medieval England 167
(c.1200–c.1500)?
Ian Friel
Index 187
Contributors
Tim Bowly took early retirement from a career in engineering and undertook
an MA in history at the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol,
where he is working on his doctoral thesis on the littoral community of
Bristol, its hinterland, south Wales and parts of Ireland in the long fifteenth
century. His interests also include medieval shipping, fishing and fisheries.
Ian Friel was formerly curator of the Chichester District Museum. From
1977 to 1988 he worked as a historian at the National Maritime Museum,
Greenwich. From 1988 to 1992 he was exhibition manager for the Mary Rose
Trust at Portsmouth. He now works as an independent historian, museum
consultant and writer.
Richard Gorski is Philip Nicholas Memorial Lecturer in Maritime History
at the University of Hull, and Assistant Director of the University’s Maritime
Historical Studies Centre. His current research interests and most recent
publications lie in the field of nineteenth-century merchant seafaring and its
administration. He teaches very widely within the field of Maritime History.
Craig Lambert is currently a Research Associate in the History Department
at the University of Hull where he is engaged on an Economic and Social
Research Council project that aims to understand the size, composition and
geographical distribution of the English merchant fleet in the fourteenth
century. He has recently published a monograph entitled Shipping the Medi-
eval Military: English Maritime Logistics in the Fourteenth Century (2011).
Tony Moore studied history as an undergraduate and postgraduate at the
University of Cambridge. In 2006–07 he worked as research associate
on ‘The “Lands of the Normans” in England, 1204–1244’, a project at the
University of Sheffield funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council
(www.hrionline.ac.uk/normans). From 2007 to 2010 he was the research
assistant on the project ‘Credit Finance in the Middle Ages: Loans to the
English Crown c.1272–1340’, funded by the Economic and Social Research
Council, and based at the ICMA Centre, Henley Business School, University
of Reading (www.icmacentre.ac.uk/medievalcredit). His own research looks
at the relationship between centre and locality in medieval England, focusing
on the development of royal government, law and state finance as well as the
identity and political activities of the landed classes.
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Marcus Pitcaithly read Ancient and Modern History at Worcester College,
Oxford, and has recently completed an MPhil in Maritime History at the
University of Exeter.
Susan Rose’s interest in naval and maritime history began with her PhD
at Birkbeck College, London which resulted in a study of the navy of the
Lancastrian kings published by the Navy Record Society in 1982. Since that
time her main interest has been all aspects of medieval shipping. She is a
Vice-President of the Society for Nautical Research and a recent council
member of the Navy Records Society. Since her retirement from teaching at
Roehampton University in 2006 and the Open University in 2010 she has
been engaged in research and writing. Recent books include The Medieval
Sea (2007), Calais: An English Town in France 1347–1558 (2008), and The
Medieval Wine Trade (2011). She has also written articles and contributions
to edited books on maritime topics.
David Simpkin completed his first degree and PhD at the University of Hull
and is currently Honorary Visiting Fellow at the ICMA Centre, University
of Reading. He is the author of The English Aristocracy at War: From the
Welsh Wars of Edward I to the Battle of Bannockburn (2008), and is currently
co-editing a volume on ‘Anglo-Scottish Warfare in the Later Middle Ages’.
Richard W. Unger is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History of
the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He has published
on the economic and maritime history of medieval and early modern
Europe. His latest book is Ships on Maps: Pictures of Power in Renaissance
Europe (2010) and as editor his recent works include Shipping Efficiency and
Economic Growth 1350–1850 (2011), Britain and Poland-Lithuania: Contact
and Comparison From the Middle Ages to 1795 (2008) and, with Richard
Talbert, Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Fresh Perspectives, New
Methods (2008).
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