The World of the Newport Medieval Ship

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: 9781786831453
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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The World of the
NEWPORT MEDIEVAL SHIP
The 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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Cover illustration: Peter G. Power, The Newport Medieval Ship (detail), Newport Museum (2015). By permission of the Friends of the Newport Ship.
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CONTENTS

Foreword
HRH The Prince of Wales
List of Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
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 North-western 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
Notes
Glossary
FOREWORD

HRH The Prince of Wales
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

Hilario Casado Alonso is a Professor of Economic History at the University of 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, including Señores, Mercaderes y Campesinos. La comarca de Burgos a fines de la Edad Media (1987) and El triunfo de Mercurio (2003).
Wendy R. Childs is 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) and Trade 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, including Bristol: Ethnic Minorities and the City, 1000 -2001 (2007), Coventry and the Wars of the Roses (2011) and Bristol and the End of Empire: The Consequences of the Fall of Gascony (2014).
Ian Friel (PhD, FSA) is one of the foremost experts on medieval maritime technology. His publications include The Good Ship: Ships, Shipbuilding and Technology in England 1200 -1520 (1995), The British Museum Maritime History of Britain & Ireland c. 400 -2001 (2003) and Henry 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.
Ralph A. Griffiths OBE is an Emeritus Professor of the University of Swansea, specialising in the history of later medieval Britain. A former chair of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, he is best known for his work on Wales, the Tudors and the dynastic conflicts of the fifteenth century. Major publications he has authored or edited include The Making of the Tudor Dynasty (1985) and The Short Oxford History of the British Isles: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries (2003).
Francesco Guidi-Bruscoli is an Associate Professor of Economic History at the University of Florence. He is one of the leading experts on the long-distance trade and finance in medieval Europe, particularly that practiced by the Italians. His publications include: Papal Banking in Renaissance Rome (2007) and John Cabot and his Italian financiers , Historical Research (2012). He is associated with a number of international projects, including ones at Bristol, Queen Mary and York.
Evan T. Jones (PhD) is a senior lecturer in economic and social history at the University of Bristol, where he has taught since 2001. He specialises in maritime history, particularly in relation to Bristol. His research and publications encompass overseas trade, shipping, smuggling, privateering, distant water fisheries and exploration. Major publications include Inside the Illicit Economy (Routledge, 2012) and a series of articles published in Historical Research based on his Cabot Project (2009-).
Toby Jones (PhD) is a nautical archeologist and the curator of the Newport Medieval Ship Project, which he has led since 2007. Within Newport Museum and Art Gallery, Toby has overall responsibility for the archaeological research, project management and public engagement of the ship. He has published a number of articles and book chapters that relate to both the archaeology of the ship and the innovative recording methods developed while working on the vessel.
Flávio Miranda (PhD) is a researcher at the CITCEM at the University of Porto and at the Institute of Medieval Studies at the Nova University of Lisbon. He has previously studied and worked at the universities of Porto, Groningen, Notre Dame (Indiana) and Cambridge. His research focuses on the merchant communities and institutions of late medieval Portugal. He has published more than ten articles and book chapters in Portuguese, Spanish, French, German and English, and is now preparing a forthcoming book on Portugal s commercial expansion in the Middle Ages.
Nigel Nayling is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. He has worked as a nautical archaeologist and dendrochronologist in the Severn Estuary region since 1991 and has been involved with the Newport Medieval Ship Project since 2002, acting as an advisor on the vessel s significance, dismantling and recording. He has published a large number of articles, book chapters and reports relating to nautical dendrochronology.
Susan Rose (PhD) is one of the leading authorities on English medieval maritime history. A former part-time history lecturer at both the Open University and the University of Roehampton, her books include Medieval Naval Warfare 1000 -1500 (2001), The Medieval Sea (2007), The Wine Trade in Medieval Europe, 1000 -1500 (2011) and England s Medieval Navy, 1066 -1509: Ships, Men and Warfare (2013). She has also published a large number of scholarly articles and book chapters.
Richard Stone (PhD) is a teaching fellow in early modern history at the University of Bristol. He was one of the co-organisers of The World of the Newport Medieval Ship conference (2014) and is a co-editor of this volume. His research focuses on Bristol s maritime trade in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries. He has published one article on this topic and is currently writing a monograph on Bristol s seventeenth-century trade.
Bob Trett is the leading authority on the history of Newport and Caerleon. He was the Museum Officer at Newport Museum and Art Gallery before he retired and has been involved with the Newport Medieval Ship project from its inception. His publications include Newport Medieval Ship - A Guide (2010) and Newport - A History and Celebration (2012). He has also written or contributed to a large number of historical and archaeological papers in journals and edited collections.
LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 2.1: The Newport Medieval Ship In-Situ (colour section)
Figure 2.2: Loose Timbers in the Newport Medieval Ship (colour section)
Figure 2.3: French Coin Found in the Mast Step of the Newport Medieval Ship (colour section)
Figure 2.4: David Jordan, Final Resting Place (2017) (colour section)
Figure 2.5: Scale Model of the Newport Medieval Ship (colour section)
Figure 2.6: Digital Reconstruction of the Newport Medieval Ship (colour section)
Figure 2.7: Computer Modelling of the Hold of the Newport Medieval Ship (colour section)
Figure 3.1: Bordeaux Wine Ladings, 1307-1449
Figure 3.2: English Shipping, 1439-51 and 1512-14
Figure 4.1: Geographical Distribution of Pirate Attacks
Figure 5.1: Newport Castle and Bridge, late 1700s by Paul Sandby (colour section)
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