The Social history of English seamen, 1485-1649 / edited by Cheryl A. Fury.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fury, Cheryl A., 1966- editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sailors--England--History.

Sailors.

History.

England.

Physical Description:

350 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2012.

Summary:

Only in the past few decades have scholars of British maritime expansion turned their attention away from the traditional topics of events and participants at the top and fully engaged with investigating the social history of the average seafarers who crewed the vessels that laid the foundations of the British Empire. This volume is presented by Fury (history, U. of New Brunswick, Canada) as a stock-taking of those historians' efforts, containing nine chapters that provide summaries of current findings in specific areas of investigation into the social history of Tudor and early Stuart seamen. Topics discussed include the pioneering work of historian G.V. Scammell, Tudor merchant seafarers in the early Guinea trade, the religious shipboard culture of 16th and 17th-century English sailors, health and health care at sea, the relief of English disabled sailors, seamen's wives and widows, and Jacobean piracy. Boydell Press is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

The English maritime community, 1500-1650

The work of G. V. Scammell

The men of Mary Rose

Tudor merchant seafarers in the early Guinea Trade

The Elizabethan martime community

The religious shipboard culture of sixteenth and seventeenth-century English sailors

Health and health care at sea

The relief of English disabled ex-sailors, c. 1590-1680

Seamen's wives and widows

Jacobean piracy: English maritime depredation in transition, 1603-1625.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-346) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781843836896

1843836890

OCLC:

709669418