Tudor shipmasters and maritime communities, 1550‒1600

Lambert, Craig (2020) Tudor shipmasters and maritime communities, 1550‒1600. In, Jowitt, C., Lambert, C. and Mentz, S. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds 1400-1800. Abingdon. Routledge, pp. 323-348.

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This chapter examines Tudor maritime communities by deploying new methodologies. Using computer assisted research tools it shows how familial relationships and the socio-economic status of shipmasters can be analysed.

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Accepted/In Press date: January 2020

e-pub ahead of print date: 21 May 2020

Published date: 20 July 2020

Additional Information: This is part of major new edition encompassing 25 chapters and over 250,000 words. This volume seeks to address aspects of human contact with and experience of the oceans in this transformative phase in seaborne activity across the globe, and economic and cultural growth by asking pertinent questions addressed through a series of essays. How does access to oceans and waterways shape and impact cultures? How did seafarers and other members of maritime societies live and work? What advancements in shipbuilding occurred over this period, how did and navigational instruments develop and how were they used aboard ships? How did notions of the sea affect literature and art in those societies that had most contact with it? What can maps reveal about European expansion and ambitions? How did governments and rulers use the sea and ships to project power and convey splendour, and what impact did the development of seapower have on a state’s fiscal and social structures? How did governments react to more complex trading relationships and interstate conflicts which often produced diplomatic and legal problems? What role did privateering and piracy play in maritime economies and state rivalries and how did this impact on the development of legal frameworks? As European powers expanded what systems did merchants develop to handle longer and more expensive trading voyages, and what effects did this have on indigenous societies? These important questions are investigated by a group of world-leading scholars, as well as some distinctive new voices, with research specialisms in commercial, social, legal, naval, and cultural aspects of maritime studies.

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