Medieval Towns and Urban Life

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Medieval Towns and Urban Life
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Medieval Trade Routes in the Early and High
Middle Ages
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Medieval Galleys
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Medieval Ship Types in the North Atlantic
longships and round ships (knarrs and cogs)
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Medieval cogs (late 13th century)

• To illustrate the quickly increasing size of the
  ships we can look at the Hanseatic notes in the
  Lübecker Zollrolle of 1227. The ships were
  divided in three classes
• Under 5 lasten (under 10 tons)
• 5-12 lasten (10-24 tons)
• More than 12 lasten (more than 24 tons)
• In a similar document from 1358 there were two
  classes
• Under 60 lasten (- 120 tons)
• More than 60 lasten (120 tons)
• From website by Per Åkesson, January 1999
• www.abc.se/pa/mar/cog.htm
• Dudszus, Henriot, Krumley Das grosse Buch der
  Schiffstypen, Transpress VEB Verlag, Berlin 1987,

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Naos and Carracks (15th and early 16th Centuries)

• A carrack or nao was a three- or four-masted
  sailing ship developed in the Mediterranean in
  the fifteenth century.
• Characteristics
• high rounded stern with an aftercastle and a
  forecastle
• a bowsprit at the stem
• square-rigging on the foremast and mainmast and
  lateen-rigging on the mizzenmast.

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Flemish wool merchants purchasing wool in
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Medieval merchants
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Left San Marco piazza in Venice/ Right Brussels
town square with guild buildings
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Medieval Market
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Medieval York the Shambles today and in viking
times