The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds, 1400¿1800 explores early modern maritime history, culture, and the current state of the research and approaches taken by experts in the field.
Claire Jowitt is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of East Anglia. Author of Voyage Drama and Gender Politics, 1589?42 and The Culture of Piracy: English Literature and Seaborne Crime 1580?30, she is currently preparing, as General Editor, an edition of Richard Hakluyt's The Principal Navigations (1598?00).
Craig Lambert is Associate Professor in Maritime History at the University of Southampton. Author of Shipping the Medieval Military and numerous articles/book chapters on naval operations and maritime communities (c.1300?em>c.1600), he has recently launched a free to access searchable database of over 50,000 ship-voyages (c.1400?em>c.1577): www.medievalandtudorships.org
Steve Mentz is Professor of English at St. John's University in New York City. A scholar of early modern literature and the environmental humanities, he is author of Shipwreck Modernity: Ecologies of Globalization 1550?19 (2015), Break Up the Anthropocene (2019), and Ocean (2020).
