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Iberian Ships of the Early Modern Period

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At the cultural convergence of three different worlds, the Atlantic, the Baltic, and the Mediterranean, Spain, and Portugal played an important role in the Renaissance technical revolution. Both countries developed new types of watercraft during this period and adopted new navigation techniques that allowed them to venture further away from the Iberian Peninsula. Thousands of books have been written about the Renaissance and the European expansion, but the ships that made the European voyages possible are still largely unknown to us. This short chapter is a contribution to a better understanding of the origins of Iberian shipbuilding traditions.

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    Filipe Castro & Miguel Martins

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  1. Instituto de Historia, CSIC, Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain

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  3. Institute of Education and Humanities, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter, Ceredigion, UK

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Castro, F., Gauthier-Bérubé, M., Martins, M. (2022). Iberian Ships of the Early Modern Period. In: Crespo Solana, A., Castro, F., Nayling, N. (eds) Heritage and the Sea . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86460-6_4

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