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Title The social history of English seamen, 1485-1649 / edited by Cheryl A. Fury
Published Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (350 pages)
Contents The English maritime community, 1500-1650 / David Loades -- The work of G.V. Scammell / Cheryl A. Fury -- The men of Mary Rose / Ann Stirling -- Tudor merchant seafarers in the early Guinea Trade / J.D. Alsop -- The Elizabethan martime community / Cheryl A. Fury -- The religious shipboard culture of sixteenth and seventeenth-century English sailors / Vincent V. Patarino, Jr -- Health and health care at sea / Cheryl A. Fury -- The relief of English disabled ex-sailors, c. 1590-1680 / Geoffrey L. Hudson -- Seamen's wives and widows / Cheryl A. Fury -- Jacobean piracy : English maritime depredation in transition, 1603-1625 / John C. Appleby
Summary Summarises research findings, including on how ships were manned and provisioned, trade, piracy, the wider maritime community, health and medicine at sea, religion and shipboard culture, and what has been learned from the important wreck the Mary Rose
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Sailors -- England -- History
Sailors -- England -- Social conditions
Social history.
Medicine -- History -- 17th century.
Naval Medicine -- history
Military Personnel -- history
Social Conditions
History, Early Modern 1451-1600
History, 17th Century
social history.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Marine & Naval.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
Social history
Medicine
Sailors
Sailors -- Social conditions
SUBJECT Great Britain -- History, Naval -- Tudors, 1485-1603. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056844
Great Britain -- History, Naval -- Stuarts, 1603-1714. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056845
United Kingdom
England
Subject England
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Naval history
Form Electronic book
Author Fury, Cheryl A., 1966- editor.
ISBN 9781782042136
178204213X