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Roles of the Sea in Medieval England Roles of the Sea in Medieval England Edited by Richard Gorski THE BOYDELL PRESS © Contributors 2012 All Rights Reserved. Except as permitted under current legislation no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner First published 2012 The Boydell Press, Woodbridge ISBN 978 1 84383 701 5 The Boydell Press is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. 668 Mount Hope Ave, Rochester, NY 14620, USA website: www.boydellandbrewer.com A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library The publisher has no responsibility for the continued existence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Papers used by Boydell & Brewer Ltd are natural, recyclable products made from wood grown in sustainable forests Printed in Great Britain by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY 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. vii 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). viii
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