This book surveys how the peoples bordering the Mediterranean,
North Sea, English Channel and eastern Atlantic related to the sea
in all its aspects between approximately 1000-1500 A.D. How was the
sea represented in poems and other writings? What kinds of boats
were used and how were they built? How easy was it to navigate on
short or long passages? Was seaborne trade crucial to the economy
of this area? Did naval warfare loom large in the minds of medieval
rulers? What can be said more generally about the lives of those
who went to sea or who lived by its shores? These are the major
questions which are addressed in this book, which is based on
extensive research in both maritime archives and also in secondary
literature. It concludes by pointing out how the relatively
enclosed maritime world of Western Europe was radically changed by
the voyages of the late fifteenth century across the Atlantic to
the Caribbean and round Africa to India.
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