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Channel region --- Ectocarpaceae --- keys

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This collection of papers by an international chort of contributors explores the nature of the maritime connections that appear to have existed in the Transmanche/English Channel Zone during later prehistory. Organised into three themes, Movement and Identity in the Transmanche Zone ; Travel and exchange ; Identity and Landscape , the papers seek to articulate notions of frontier, mobility and identity from the end of the 3rd to the beginning of the 1st millennium BC, a time when the archaeological evidence suggests that the sea facilitated connections between peoples on both sides of the Channel rather than acting as a barrier as it is so often perceived today. Recent decades have since a massive increase in large-scale excavation programmes on either side of the Channel in advance of major infra-structure and urban development, resulting in the acqusition of huge, complex new datasets enabling new insights into later prehistoric life in this crucially important region. Papers consider the role of several key archaeologists in transforming our appreciation of the connectivity of the sea in prehistory; consider the extent to which the Channel zone developed into a closely unified cultural zone during later Bronze Age in terms of communities that serviced the movement of artefacts across the Channel with both sides sharing widely in the same artefacts and social practices; examine funerary practices and settlement evidence and consider the relationship between communities in social, cultural and ideological terms; and consider mechanisms for the transmission of ideas and how they may be reflected in the archaeological record.

Bronze age --- Culture diffusion --- Material culture --- Commerce, Prehistoric --- History --- English Channel Region

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In Ports, Piracy, and Maritime War Thomas K. Heebøll-Holm presents a study of maritime predation in English and French waters around the year 1300. Following Cicero, pirates have traditionally been cast as especially depraved robbers and the enemy of all, but Heebøll-Holm shows that piracy was often part of private wars between English, French, and Gascon ports and mariners, occupying a liminal space between crime and warfare. Furthermore he shows how piracy was an integral part of maritime commerce and how the adjudication of piracy followed the legal procedure of the march. Heebøll-Holm convincingly demonstrates how piracy influenced the policies of the English and the French kings and he contributes to our understanding of Anglo-French relations on the eve of the Hundred Years’ War.

Law, Medieval. --- Pirates --- Droit médiéval --- History --- Histoire --- Atlantic Ocean --- English Channel --- France --- Great Britain --- Atlantique, Océan --- Manche (Mer) --- Grande-Bretagne --- Piracy (International law) --- Piracy --- Seeräuberei. --- Seerecht. --- Ärmelkanal. --- Atlantischer Ozean --- Piracy -- English Channel region -- History -- To 1500. --- Piracy -- North Atlantic Region -- History -- To 1500. --- Piracy (International law) -- History -- To 1500. --- Law, Medieval --- Droit médiéval --- Atlantique, Océan --- Maritime piracy --- Offenses against public safety --- Medieval law --- International law