Karel Vlierman Cogs, small cogs and boats

the thirteenth- until sixteenth- century Dutch and Flemish archaeological finds from the Hanseatic shipbuilding tradition seen in a broader perspective

"From the thirteenth to the fifteenth century an important part of the economy in north western Europe was based on trade in the Hanseatic League. The main means of transport consisted of ships, mainly cogs. The importance of this type of ship was already apparent from medieval documents, miniatures and other sources. One of the world's largest collections of medieval shipwrecks emerged after the Second World War during the partial reclamation of the IJsselmeer lake (the former Zuiderzee inlet) in...

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Engels | 998 pagina's | Spa uitgevers, Zwolle | 2021

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