Foreword (HRH The Prince of Wales) List of Contributors List of Figures/Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgements 1 Introduction (Evan T. Jones) 2 The Newport Medieval Ship: Archaeological Analysis of a Fifteenth Century Merchant Ship (Nigel Nayling and Toby Jones) 3 The Rise and Fall of the Big Ship, 1400-1520 (Ian Friel) 4 Violence at Sea in the Late Fifteenth Century (Susan Rose) 5 Newport During the Fifteenth Century (Bob Trett) 6 Sailing the Severn Sea in the Mid-Fifteenth Century (Ralph A. Griffiths) 7 The Severn Sea: Urban Networks and Connections in the Fifteenth Century (Peter Fleming) 8 The Shipping Industry of the Severn Sea (Evan T. Jones) 9 The Trading Context of the Newport Ship: The Overseas Trade of Bristol and its Region in the Mid-Fifteenth Century (Wendy R. Childs) 10 Bristol’s Overseas Trade in the Later Fifteenth Century: The Evidence of the ‘Particular’ Customs Accounts (Richard Stone) 11 The Iberian Economy and Commercial Exchange with Northwestern Europe in the Later Middle Ages (Hilario Casado Alonso and Flávio Miranda) 12 Trade and Navigation Between the Atlantic and Mediterranean Worlds in the Mid-Fifteenth Century (Francesco Guidi-Bruscoli) Glossary