Itās still rather summery here in Southampton, but the new semester is almost underway. At times the wind picks up, the rain mists down, and thereās a humidity in the air that reminds us weāre located near the water. In celebration of the new semester and Southamptonās maritime history, weāve got a new episode of Southampton History Speaks. This time around, listen to Gary Baker and Craig Lambert talk to Rachel Herrmann about medieval and early modern English maritime shipping.
Youāll learn about the Grace Dieu and its significance in the context of this yearās Agincourt commemorations, how one researches the medieval world when oneās sources are just lists and lists and lists, and why Gary and Craig think ādatabasingā should be a word. This is an episode for historians interested in big datasets and how to wrangle them, but itās also an episode for everyone interested in maritime history more broadly.
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Suggested Reading
Ayton, Andrew and Lambert, Craig. āA Maritime Community in War and Peace: Kentish ports, ships and mariners, 1320-1400ā, Archaeologia Cantiana, 134 (2014): 67-104.
Baker, Gary. āInvestigating the Socio-Economic Origins of English Archers in the Second Half of the Fourteenth Centuryā, Journal of Medieval Military History XII, ed. Clifford, J. Rogers, Kelly DeVries, John France (2014).
Lambert, Craig and Ayton, Andrew. āThe English Mariner in the Fourteenth Centuryā, in Fourteenth Century England, ed. Mark Ormrod (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2012), 153-76.
Lambert, Craig. āThe Cinque Ports in the wars of Edward II and Edward III: New Methodologies and Shipping Estimatesā, in Roles of the Sea in Medieval England, ed. Richard Gorski (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2012): 59-78.