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The illustrations are numerous and gorgeous.

The illustrations are numerous and gorgeous. So, if you're looking for information about how ships were built, how they were used, et. you won't really find that here. You will find numerous representations, though, and the author does a good job of describing where the depictions were/were not accurate, how they changed, and so on.

Ships and Shipping illuminates medieval society and culture broadly, and is. .

Ships and Shipping illuminates medieval society and culture broadly, and is recommended for all medievalists and maritime historians. Focusing on manuscript illuminations - drawn mainly from the British Library's unparalled collection - marine archaeologist Joe Flatman traces the changing shape of ships in European life and culture from the 11th to 16th centuries. It was a period of unprecedented technological progress: within just a few centuries, the Viking rowboat evolved into the multi-decked, full-rigged carrack.

The ship loomed large in the medieval world and mind: whether cruising upriver laden with grain, cresting the high seas bristling with guns, or symbolizing a wealth of virtues, from power and promise to strength and safety.

The ship loomed large in the medieval world and mind. Whether cruising upriver laden with grain, or cresting the high seas bristling with guns, ships symbolized power and promise, strength and safety, crusade and conquest.

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Find sources: "Hulk" medieval ship type – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this . a b c d e Jo. Flatman (2009). London: British Library.

Find sources: "Hulk" medieval ship type – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this template message). Not to be confused with a hulk (ship), an unseaworthy hull still in limited floating service. A caravel, a ship type derived from the hulk. A hulk (or "holk") was a type of medieval sea craft, a technological predecessor of the carrack and caravel.

The ship loomed large in the medieval world and mind: whether cruising upriver laden with grain, cresting the high seas bristling with guns, or symbolizing a wealth of virtues, from power and promise to strength and safety

The ship loomed large in the medieval world and mind: whether cruising upriver laden with grain, cresting the high seas bristling with guns, or symbolizing a wealth of virtues, from power and promise to strength and safety.

The ships of Medieval Europe were powered by sail or oar, or both. There was a large variety, mostly based on much older conservative designs. Although wider and more frequent communications within Europe meant exposure to a variety of improvements,. Although wider and more frequent communications within Europe meant exposure to a variety of improvements, experimental failures were costly and rarely attempted. Ships in the north were influenced by Viking vessels, while those in the south by classical or Roman vessels. However, there was technological change.

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Joe Flatman, Ships and Shipping in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2009), pl. 17. Galileo: Images of the Universe from Antiquity to the Telescope, ed. by Paolo Galluzzi, Florence, Palazzo Strozzi 13 March-30 August 2009 (Florence: Giunti, 2009), no. I.