IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 603: Ships and Seafarers: War, Trade, and Community, 1300-1600
Tuesday 7 July 2015, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Arts & Humanities Research Council Project 'The Evolution of English Shipping Capacity and Shipboard Communities, from the Late Middle Ages (1400) to Drake's Circumnavigation (1577)' |
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| Organiser: | Craig Lambert, Department of History, University of Southampton |
| Moderator/Chair: | Nicholas Karn, Department of History, University of Southampton |
| Paper 603-a | English Seafarer Communities in the Later Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - General, Genealogy and Prosopography, Maritime and Naval Studies |
| Paper 603-b | The Demands of Naval Warfare: The Case of the Cinque Ports, 1320-1453 (Language: English) Index terms: Demography, Maritime and Naval Studies, Military History |
| Paper 603-c | Seaborne Trading Networks in Late Medieval and Tudor England (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Economics - Trade, Maritime and Naval Studies |
| Abstract | This session derives from the findings of an Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project entitled 'The Evolution of English Shipping Capacity and Shipboard Communities, 1400-1577'. Each paper will draw significantly from a database that records the names of over 30,000 shipmasters and over 40,000 ship voyages. Paper one will examine seafarer communities within a more personal social context and more closely within regional economies and county communities. Paper two will assess the shipping contributions made by the Cinque Ports to the wars over this period, including an analysis of the demographic impact naval recruitment had on these communities. Paper three will assess interconnectedness through seaborne commerce and will draw extensively on the medieval custom accounts and Tudor port books that record maritime trade. |