Title: European naval and maritime history, 300-1500 /
Authors: Lewis, Archibald R.; Runyan, Timothy J.
Date: 1985
Publisher: Indiana University Press,
Physical description: xiii, 192 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language: English
LC classification: V
Abstract: This general survey of European naval and maritime history for the period from A.D. 300 to 1500 focuses on Western Europe, including the Baltic, North Sea, and Atlantic traditions, and on the Mediterranean, particularly Byzantine and Moslem naval history. The authors survey a number of interconnected areas: the use of sea power in international and intercultural relations, commerce and trade routes, naval technology and design, military tactics, the physical features of seafaring, and the geography of the sea. They make accessible to the general reader very technical scholarship, and provide numerous maps and illustrations that explain the changes in ship design and construction.
Contents: The late Roman world to A.D. 500 -- Byzantine naval power and shipping, 500-1291 -- Muslim naval and maritime power in the Mediterranean, 651-1498 -- Latin western naval power and shipping in the Mediterranean, 800-1498 -- Irish, Frisians, and Vikings in the Northern seas, 500-1066 -- The age of the English and the Hansa in the North, 1066-1377 -- The rise of Iberian sea power and a new Atlantic destiny, 1377-1498.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Europe--History, Naval.; Navigation--Europe--History.