How to sail across the English Channel in the Middle Ages

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• Susan Raich
• Tuesday 03 November 2015, 21:00-21:30
• Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College.

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How did people travel by sea after the Vikings and before the Age of Exploration? Using records from the Anglo-Norman realm, which spanned across the English Channel over the late eleventh and twelfth centuries, this paper will investigate the processes involved in medieval sailing. From stories of disasters at sea involving shipwrecks, storms, drunken sailors, and pirate attacks, it is possible to reconstruct the everyday features of travel in the medieval age of sail.

This talk is part of the Caius MCR/SCR research talks series.

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