Table Of ContentThe Routledge Companion
to Marine and Maritime
Worlds, 1400–1800
The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds, 1400–1800 explores early
modern maritime history, culture, and the current state of the research and approaches
taken by experts in the field.
Ranging from cartography to poetry and decorative design to naval warfare, the
book shows how once-traditional and often Euro-chauvinistic depictions of oce-
anic ‘mastery’ during the early modern period have been replaced by newer global
ideas. This comprehensive volume challenges underlying assumptions by balancing its
assessment of the consequences and accomplishments of European navigators in the
era of Columbus, da Gama, and Magellan, with an awareness of the sophistication and
maritime expertise in Asia, the Arab world, and the Americas. By imparting riveting
new stories and global perceptions of maritime history and culture, the contributors
provide readers with fresh insights concerning early modern entanglements between
humans and the vast, unpredictable ocean.
With maritime studies growing and the ocean’s health in decline, this volume is
essential reading for academics and students interested in the historicization of the
ocean and the ways early modern cultures both conceptualized and utilized seas.
Claire Jowitt is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of East Anglia.
Author of Voyage Drama and Gender Politics, 1589–1642 and The Culture of Piracy:
English Literature and Seaborne Crime 1580–1630, she is currently preparing, as General
Editor, an edition of Richard Hakluyt’s The Principal Navigations (1598–1600).
Craig Lambert is Associate Professor in Maritime History at the University of
Southampton. Author of Shipping the Medieval Military and numerous articles/book
chapters on naval operations and maritime communities (c.1300–c.1600), he has
recently launched a free to access searchable database of over 50,000 ship-voyages
(c.1400–c.1577): www.medievalandtudorships.org
Steve Mentz is Professor of English at St John’s University in New York City.
A scholar of early modern literature and the environmental humanities, he is author
of Shipwreck Modernity: Ecologies of Globalization 1550–1719 (2015), Break Up the
Anthropocene (2019), and Ocean (2020).
The Routledge
Companion to Marine
and Maritime Worlds,
1400–1800
Edited by Claire Jowitt, Craig Lambert,
and Steve Mentz
First published 2020
by Routledge
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Jowitt, Claire, editor. | Lambert, Craig L., editor. |
Mentz, Steve, editor.
Title: Routledge companion to marine and maritime worlds, 1400–1800 /
edited by Claire Jowitt, Craig Lambert, and Steve Mentz.
Description: London ; New York, NY : Routledge/Taylor & Francis
Group, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020005253 (print) | LCCN 2020005254 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780367471842 (hardback) | ISBN 9781003048503 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Ocean and civilization—History. | Navigation—History. |
Naval art and science—History. | Shipping—History. | Globalization—
History. | Merchant marine—History. | Seafaring life in literature.
Classification: LCC CB465 .R685 2020 (print) | LCC CB465 (ebook) |
DDC 910.4—dc23
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ISBN: 9780367471842 (hbk)
ISBN: 9781003048503 (ebk)
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Contents
List of figures viii
List of tables x
Notes on contributors xi
Acknowledgements xix
1 Introduction: oceans in global history and culture
1400–1800: expanding horizons 1
Claire Jowitt, Craig Lambert, and Steve Mentz
Part I
Historiography and the premodern sea 31
2 Why the medieval sea mattered 33
Susan Rose
3 Rediscovering the age of discovery 50
Lincoln Paine
4 The cartography of the sea: mapping England’s
‘mastery of the oceans’ 67
Alistair S. Maeer
5 Domestic maritime trade in late Tudor England c.1565–85:
a case study of King’s Lynn and Plymouth 95
Gary Paul Baker
6 Global networks in maritime worlds 1400–1800 125
Rila Mukherjee
7 Regionalism, localism, and individualism in the Ottoman
Mediterranean: seventeenth-century Ottoman seafarers’ tales 151
Rhoads Murphey
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Part II
Material seas 175
8 Port towns and the ‘paramaritime’ 177
Isaac Land
9 Fishermen and their families in late medieval and Tudor Kent 202
Sheila Sweetinburgh
10 Ships and shipping technology 221
Richard W. Unger
11 Navies and naval operations 242
John B. Hattendorf
12 Nautical manuals and ships’ instruments, 1550–1800: lessons
in two and three dimensions 273
Margaret E. Schotte
13 Spectacles of the sea: warship decoration and ideology
in early modern Europe 298
Benjamin W. D. Redding
Part III
Social and political seas 321
14 Tudor shipmasters and maritime communities, 1550–1600 323
Craig Lambert
15 Women and the Sea, 1600–1800 349
Margarette Lincoln
16 Early modern English piracy and privateering 368
Elaine Murphy
17 Law and the sea 388
Richard J. Blakemore
18 ‘Men whose vocation calls us to dangers substantial’: health
care in the early English East India Company, 1601–11 426
Cheryl Fury
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19 English trading companies and the sea, 1550–1650: ‘beyond
the seas merchant like’ 447
Edmond J. Smith
20 Transatlantic tubers: New World potatoes in early modern
English literature 469
Edward McLean Test
Part IV
Cultural seas 491
21 Mutable, associative, and ugly: oceanic feelings in Middle
English literature and medieval natural science 493
Matthew Boyd Goldie
22 Enter Jack Tar: the blue-water mariner in early modern
world literature 514
Dan Brayton
23 Early modern maritime heroes: idols of the sea 533
Claire Jowitt
24 Sea music and shipboard performance culture 559
James Seth
25 ‘We split!’: shipwreck in early modern European
history and culture 580
Steve Mentz
Index 598
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Figures
4.1 John Burston, Western Portion of ‘Chart of the Mediterranean
(1640)’ 75
4.2 Francesco Oliva, ‘Chart of the Mediterranean (1603)’ 76
4.3 Joan Oliva, ‘Chart of the Mediterranean (c.1640)’ 77
4.4 Nicholas Comberford, ‘Chart of the Mediterranean (1663)’ 79
4.5 François Ollive, ‘Chart of the Mediterranean (1662)’ 80
4.6 ‘Province of Mayne’, Anon, c. late seventeenth century 82
4.7 Andrew Welch, ‘Chart of Gujurat (1677)’ 84
4.8 John Thornton, ‘A Draught of the Coast of Malabar (1696)’ 85
4.9 Augustine Fitzhugh, ‘Chart of Newfoundland (1693)’ 87
8.1 Pietro Cataneo, I qvattro primi libri di architettvra, 1554 180
8.2 Engelbert Kaempfer, History of Japan, 1727 182
13.1 English Ships and the Spanish Armada, August 1588,
unknown artist 300
13.2 The Peter (Pomegranate) from the Anthony Roll of Henry VIII’s
Navy, 1546 305
13.3 Beakhead and figurehead of Stockholm’s Vasa 306
13.4 Portrait of the Brederode 311
13.5 Portrait of a French two-decker 312
20.1 John Gerard, The Herball, or, Generall historie of plantes,
Frontispiece 471
20.2 MA 3900 Histoire naturelle des Indes: manuscript, ca. 1586 478
20.3 John Gerard, The Herball, or, Generall histoire of plantes,
pages 780–1 480
23.1 Hieronimus Cock (drawing) and Nicolas Hogenberg (engraver),
Funeral Procession in Brussels on the Occasion of the Death of Emperor
Charles V 545
23.2 Denys van Alsloot, The Ommegang in Brussels on 31 May 1615:
The Triumph of Archduchess Isabella (1616) 546
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Figures
23.3 Detail from Denys van Alsloot, The Ommegang in Brussels on
31 May 1615: The Triumph of Archduchess Isabella (1616) 547
23.4 Hunsdon jewel, pendant in the shape of a ship 548
23.5 Pendant symbolizing a ship, rock crystal hull mounted in gold
with enamel decoration, c.1620–30 549
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