England's Medieval Navy, 1066-1509: Ships, Men & Warfare

by Susan Rose

We often think of England in terms of Shakespeare's "precious stone set in a silver sea," safe behind its watery ramparts with its naval strength resisting all invaders. To the English of an earlier period - from the eighth to the eleventh centuries - such a notion would have seemed absurd. To them, the sea was not a defensive wall, but a highway by which successive waves of invaders arrived, bringing destruction and fear in their wake. Drawing from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773543228
• ISBN13: 9780773543225
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 10.7"