The World of the Medieval Shipmaster: Law, Business and the Sea, c. 1350–1450

Abstract

Despite a background of war, piracy, depopulation, bullion shortages, adverse political decisions, legal uncertainties and deteriorating weather conditions, between the mid-fourteenth and the mid-fifteenth centuries the English merchant shipping industry. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; 1. The Shipmaster and the Law; 2. The Shipmaster and the Rise and Fall of the Admirals' Courts; 3. The Shipmaster as Owner, Partner and Employee; 4. The Shipmaster's On-Shore Responsibilities; 5. The Shipmaster's Off-Shore Responsibilities; 6. The Shipmaster at Sea: Navigation and Meteorology; 7. The Shipmaster at Sea -- Seamanship; CONCLUSION; APPENDIX 1: Transcription and translation of the MS Liber Horn copy of the Lex d'Oleron; APPENDIX 2: Transcription and translation of the Inquisition of Queenborough.