The World of the Newport Medieval Ship

Richard Stone, Evan T. Jones

Description

The Newport Medieval Ship is the most important late-medieval merchant vessel yet recovered. Built c.1450 in northern Spain, it foundered at Newport twenty years later while undergoing repairs. Since its discovery in 2002, further investigations have transformed historians’ understanding of fifteenth-century ship technology. With plans in place to make the ship the centrepiece for a permanent exhibition in Newport, this volume interprets the vessel, to enable visitors, students and researchers to understand the ship and the world from which it came. The volume contains eleven chapters, written by leading maritime archaeologists and historians. Together, they consider its significance and locate the vessel within its commercial, political and social environment.

Foreword (HRH The Prince of Wales)
List of Contributors
List of Figures/Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction (Evan T. Jones)
2 The Newport Medieval Ship: Archaeological Analysis of a Fifteenth Century Merchant Ship (Nigel Nayling and Toby Jones)
3 The Rise and Fall of the Big Ship, 1400-1520 (Ian Friel)
4 Violence at Sea in the Late Fifteenth Century (Susan Rose)
5 Newport During the Fifteenth Century (Bob Trett)
6 Sailing the Severn Sea in the Mid-Fifteenth Century (Ralph A. Griffiths)
7 The Severn Sea: Urban Networks and Connections in the Fifteenth Century (Peter Fleming)
8 The Shipping Industry of the Severn Sea (Evan T. Jones)
9 The Trading Context of the Newport Ship: The Overseas Trade of Bristol and its Region in the Mid-Fifteenth Century (Wendy R. Childs)
10 Bristol’s Overseas Trade in the Later Fifteenth Century: The Evidence of the ‘Particular’ Customs Accounts (Richard Stone)
11 The Iberian Economy and Commercial Exchange with Northwestern Europe in the Later Middle Ages (Hilario Casado Alonso and Flávio Miranda)
12 Trade and Navigation Between the Atlantic and Mediterranean Worlds in the Mid-Fifteenth Century (Francesco Guidi-Bruscoli)
Glossary

Sujets

• Ships
• Transportation
• Shipbuilding
• History

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 14 mai 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781786831446
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 87 Mo

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he World of the NEWPORT MEDIEVAL SHIP

he World of the NEWPORT MEDIEVAL SHIP ‰‰

Trade, Politics and Shipping in the Mid-Fifteenth Century

Edited by Evan T. Jones and Richard Stone

UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS 2018

© The contributors, 2018

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CONTENTS ‰‰

Foreword HRH The Prince of Wales

List of Contributors

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Introduction Evan T. Jones

TheNewportMedievalShip: Archaeological Analysis of a FifteenthCentury Merchant Ship Nigel Nayling and Toby Jones

The Rise and Fall of the Big Ship, 1400–1520 Ian Friel

Violence at Sea in the Late Fifteenth Century Susan Rose

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Newport During the Fifteenth Century Bob Trett

Sailing the Severn Sea in the MidFifteenth Century Ralph A. Griffiths

TheSevernSea: Urban Networks and Connections in the Fifteenth Century Peter Fleming

The Shipping Industry of the Severn Sea Evan T. Jones

TheTradingContextoftheNewportShip:TheOverseasTradeof Bristol and its Region in the MidFifteenth Century Wendy R. Childs

Bristol’sOverseasTradeintheLaterFifteenthCentury: The Evidence of the ‘Particular’ Customs Accounts Richard Stone

TheIberianEconomyandCommercialExchangewithNorthwestern Europe in the Later Middle Ages Hilario Casado Alonso and Flávio Miranda

TradeandNavigationBetweentheAtlanticandMediterraneanWorlds in the MidFifteenth Century Francesco GuidiBruscoli

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FOREWORD ‰‰

HRH The Prince of Wales

It is always a rare privilege to discover a long-lost piece of history. Having been involved in the project to recover King Henry VIII’s great warship,The Mary Rose, in 1982, I have some idea of what it means . . .

The Newport Ship is the best preserved Ifteenth-century vessel yet found. Apparently built in the Basque country inc.1449, she was wrecked twenty years later while undergoing repairs in Newport’s shipyards. We can only speculate as to the ship’s purpose – whether it was an Atlantic merchantman, a naval vessel, privateer or even an exploration vessel. Whatever her history, she was certainly the product of tumultuous times, around the period when the Wars of the Roses began. While this was an age of conLict, it was also a time of great opportunity, with voyages of discovery being undertaken by both the Portuguese, who were long-standing allies, as well as mariners from the Bristol Channel.

While the ship is an important artefact, it is only possible to understand how she would have been used if the world in which the vessel operated is understood. This volume helps to achieve that, by exploring the political, economic and social environment of the ship. As such, it greatly furthers our understanding of the maritime world that enabled the Age of Discovery.

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS ‰‰

Hilario Casado Alonsoa Professor of Economic History at the University of is Valladolid in Spain. His research interests include the development of Spanish overseas trade, maritime insurance and merchant networks from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries. He has written more than fifty book chapters and articles and authored or edited eight books, includingSeñores, Mercaderes y Campesinos. La comarca de Burgos a fines de la Edad Media(1987) andEl triunfo de Mercurio(2003).

Wendy R. Childsis Emeritus Professor of Later Medieval History at the University of Leeds. Her work focuses on European trade and communication in the Middle Ages, particularly the overseas trade of England and its contacts with Ireland, Spain and Portugal. She has written and edited over twenty books, articles and chapters in this field including,AngloCastilian Trade in the Later Middle Ages(1978) andTrade and Shipping in the Medieval West(2013).

Peter Fleming is Professor of History at the University of the West of England. His research focuses on migration, urban history and the development of Bristol during the Middle Ages. He has written or edited more than a dozen books and articles, includingBristol: Ethnic Minorities and the City, 1000–2001(2007),Coventry and the Wars of the Roses(2011) and ‘Bristol and the End of Empire: The Conse quences of the Fall of Gascony’ (2014).

Ian Friel(PhD, FSA) is one of the foremost experts on medieval maritime technology. His publications includeThe Good Ship: Ships, Shipbuilding and Technology in Eng land 1200–1520(1995),The British Museum Maritime History of Britain & Ireland c. 400–2001(2003) andHenry V’s Navy(2015). He has written numerous articles and chapters in journals or edited volumes and acted as a consultant for many museum exhibitions dealing with the history and archaeology of shipping.