Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors viii
4. List of Abbreviations x
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. The English Maritime Community, 1500–1650 5
7. 2. The Work of G.V. Scammell 27
8. 3. The Men of the Mary Rose 47
9. 4. Tudor Merchant Seafarers in the Early Guinea Trade 75
10. 5. The Elizabethan Maritime Community 117
11. 6. The Religious Shipboard Culture of Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century English Sailors 141
12. 7. Health and Health Care at Sea 193
13. 8. The Relief of English Disabled Ex-Sailors, c. 1590–1680 229
14. 9. Seamen’s Wives and Widows 253
15. 10 Jacobean Piracy: English Maritime Depredation in Transition, 1603–1625 277
16. Conclusion 301
17. Bibliography 305
18. Index 347