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Medieval Towns and Urban Life. Medieval Trade Routes in the Early and High Middle Ages. Medieval Galleys. Medieval Ship Types in the North Atlantic: longships and round ships (knarrs and cogs). Medieval cogs (late 13 th century).
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Medieval Ship Types in the North Atlantic: longships and round ships (knarrs and cogs)
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,
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.
Left: San Marco piazza in Venice/ Right: Brussels town square with guild buildings