The World of the Newport Medieval Ship

Trade, Politics and Shipping in the Mid-Fifteenth Century

Edited by Evan T. Jones, Richard Stone

Publication date:

14 May 2018

Length of book:

320 pages

Publisher

University of Wales Press

ISBN-13: 9781786831439

BOOK DESCRIPTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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