Marking Water: Piracy and Property in the Pre-Modern West
An examination of maritime theft in the medieval Mediterranean nevertheless presents what I will suggest is a modest case for ‘bringing’ medieval Europe ‘back in’ to the broader enterprise of studying world history.
Dark Age Traffic on the Bristol Channel, UK: A Hypothesis
Dark Age Traffic on the Bristol Channel, UK: A Hypothesis By Nancy Hollinrake International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, Vol.36:2 (2007) Abstract: Exotic pottery…
Quentovic defined
Quentovic defined By David Hill et al. Antiquity, Vol.64 (1990) Abstract: Some of the major sea-ports of medieval Europe still continue and flourish…
Byzantium, the Italian maritime powers, and the Black Sea before 1204
Byzantium, the Italian maritime powers, and the Black Sea before 1204 By David Jacoby Byzantinische Zeitschrift, Volume 100, Issue 2 (2008) Introduction: Genoa…
Constans II and the Byzantine navy
Constans II and the Byzantine navy By Salvatore Cosentino Byzantinische Zeitschrift, Volume 100, Issue 2 (2008) Introduction: At the beginning of the twentieth…
The origins of intensive marine fishing in medieval Europe: the English evidence
The origins of intensive marine fishing in medieval Europe: the English evidence By James H. Barrett, Alison M. Locker and Callum M. Roberts…
The Book of Michael of Rhodes: A Fifteenth-Century Maritime Manuscript
Looking at a book written by a 15th century Venetian mariner
The Battle of Malta, 1283: Prelude to a Disaster
The Battle of Malta, 1283: Prelude to a Disaster By Lawrence Mott The Circle of War in the Middle Ages: Essays on Medieval…
Merchants, ports and hinterlands. The building of sea-port structures in the Early Modern Porto
Merchants, ports and hinterlands. The building of sea-port structures in the Early Modern Porto By Amândio Jorge Morais Barros Revista da Faculdade de Letras,…
The iconographic evidence for maritime activities in the Middle Ages
The iconographic evidence for maritime activities in the Middle Ages By Joe C. Flatman Current Science, Vol.86:9 (2004) Abstract: The analysis of maritime scenes in…
The journal of Roberto da Sanseverino (1417-1487) : a study on navigation and seafaring in the fifteenth century
Roberto da Sanseverino went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1458. He travelled from Venice to Jaffa on a galley and made his return, from Acre to Ancona, on a three-masted sailing ship.
Some Questions of Medieval Nautical Technology in Kameniates’ “Sack of Thessaloniki” (904AD)
Some Questions of Medieval Nautical Technology in Kameniates’ “Sack of Thessaloniki” (904AD) By G.K. Livadas Tropis Symposia Proceedings, Vol. 3 (1989) Introduction: The chronicle of…
Some remarks on the Mediterranean and Red sea ships in Ancient and Medieval times – A preliminary report
Some remarks on the Mediterranean and Red sea ships in Ancient and Medieval times – A preliminary report By Vassilios Christides Tropis Symposium…
Private financing and shipbuilding in the kingdom of Aragon (1200 – 1350 AD)
The union of Catalonia with Aragon at the beginning of the 12th century created a power able to expand commerce and dominion over the Mediterranean Sea.
The World of the Medieval Shipmaster: Law, Business and the Sea, c.1350-c.1450
The World of the Medieval Shipmaster: Law, Business and the Sea, c.1350-c.1450 By Robin Ward Boydell & Brewer, 2009 ISBN: 9781843834557 Despite a…
Yemeni ‘Oceanic Policy’ at the end of the 13th century
Yemeni ‘Oceanic Policy’ at the end of the 13th century By Eric Vallett Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies (2005) Abstract: This paper…
Medieval Maritime Law from Oléron to Wisby: Jurisdictions in the Law of the Sea
This chapter explores the history of medieval maritime law and its practice in Northern Europe.
Prices in the Medieval Near East and Europe
This phase of growth came to a stop with the Black Death beginning in 1347. Population declined, as well as agricultural and industrial production. The Near East suffered from impoverishment during the second half of the fifteenth century, according to Ashtor. Grain prices fell because of declining demand. Compared to the previous century, standards of living were reduced for the great majority.
“Bad to the bone”? The Unnatural History of Monstrous Medieval Whales
The image of the monstrous whale pervades most medieval textual traditions on cetaceans, but historians have not explored the impact of these cultural perceptions on the use of whales in the medieval world. This paper considers how concepts of the monstrous whale impacted, if at all, the use of whales in the medieval North Atlantic.
Monstrous Fishes and the Mead-Dark Sea: Whaling in the Medieval North Atlantic
Monstrous Fishes and the Mead-Dark Sea: Whaling in the Medieval North Atlantic By Vicki Ellen Szabo Published by Brill (Series: The Northern World),…
Logboats in history: West Highland evidence
Logboats in history: West Highland evidence Cheape, Hugh Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 129 (1999), 851-860 ABSTRACT This short study…
Indigenous and Early Fisheries in North Norway
Indigenous and Early Fisheries in North Norway By Alf Ragnar Nielssen The Sea in European History, edited by Luc François and Ann Katherine Isaacs (University of…
The Sea as European Diplomatic, Political and Economical Battlefield in the Times of the Hundred Years War
The Sea as European Diplomatic, Political and Economical Battlefield in the Times of the Hundred Years War By Raphaela Averkorn The Sea in European…
“Alien” Encounters in the Maritime World of Medieval England
This essay explores these encounters, whether on English shores, on board ship, or abroad in foreign ports.