Maritime World of Early Modern Britain

Richard J. Blakemore is Lecturer in the History of the Atlantic World at the University of Reading. With Elaine Murphy, he is the author of The British Civil Wars at Sea, 1638-1653 (Boydell & Brewer, 2018), and he is currently finishing a monograph entitled Empires below Deck: Two Seafarers and their Worlds in the Seventeenth Century. James Davey is Lecturer in Naval and Maritime History at the University of Exeter. His recent publications include: Tudor and Stuart Seafarers: The Emergence of a Maritime Nation (Bloomsbury, 2018) and A New Naval History (Manchester University Press, 2019) edited with Quintin Colville. His current research project explores the Royal Navy and the ‘Age of Revolution’.

''The collection makes an engaging, well-informed, and well-researched contribution that whets the appetite for more." - Daniel Carey, Journal of Early Modern History, issue 3, 2024 "The Maritime World of Early Modern Britain demonstrates how different the questions and methodological approaches of early modern maritime history can be." - Patrick Schmidt, Historisches Institut, Universität Rostock "[The Maritime World of Early Modern Britain] is the inaugural volume of the new Maritime Humanities 1400-1800: Cultures of the Sea series and it is an excellent first statement in that series. The very high quality of the papers is exceeded only by their diversity of topics and approaches […] This book is a good statement on the future of maritime history in the early modern period. It should be widely made available and all students of maritime history be encouraged to read it and be inspired." - Dr. Sam McLean, Global Maritime History "With contributions that consider familiar sources from new angles and include unconventional actors in the narrative, The Maritime World of Early Modern Britain 'reveals a picture of connection, exchange, and interdependence' (35), identifying stimulating themes and methods for maritime historians of Britain and beyond." - Margaret E. Schotte, Journal of British Studies, Vol. 61, Iss. 3

• List of illustrations List of tables Acknowledgements Note on conventions Introduction (Richard Blakemore and James Davey) Chapter 1: The Minion and its travels: sailing to Guinea in the sixteenth century (Bernhard Klein) Chapter 2: Commanding the World Itself: Sir Walter Ralegh, La Popelinière, and the Huguenot influence on early English sea power (Alan James) Chapter 3: An investigation of the size and geographical distribution of the English, Welsh, and Channel Islands merchant fleet: a case Study of 1571-72 (Craig L. Lambert and Gary P. Baker) Chapter 4: An evaluation of Scottish trade with Iberia during the Anglo-Spanish War, 1585-1604 (Claire McLoughlin) Chapter 5: Performing 'Water' Ralegh: the cultural politics of sea captains in late Elizabethan and Jacobean drama (Claire Jowitt) Chapter 6: 'Wicked Actions Merit Fearful Judgments': capital trials aboard the early East India Company voyages (Cheryl Fury) Chapter 7 'A water bawdy house': women and the navy in the British Civil Wars (Elaine Murphy) Chapter 8 'Thy sceptre to a trident change / And straight, unruly seas thou canst command': contemporary representations of King Charles I and the Ship Money Fleets within the cultural imagination of Caroline England. (Rebecca A. Bailey) Chapter 9 'Proud Symbols of the Prospering Rural Seamen': Scottish church ship models and the Shipmaster's Societies of North East Scotland in the late 17th Century (Meredith Greiling) Chapter 10 Systematizing the sea: knowledge, power and maritime sovereignty in late seventeenth- century science (Philippa Hellawell) Bibliography Index