Pirates, Raiders And Privateers 1204-1453
by
Jill Eddison
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
In the Medieval Period the English Channel was an especially perilous stretch of water. It had two distinct (and often conflicting) functions. It was a rich commercial seaway, on which the rising economy of the known world depended. At the same time it was a wide, lawless, political frontier between...