Books by Susan (Independent Scholar Rose

A thematic history of wine and the wine trade in Europe in the middle ages from c.1000 to c.1500

Surveys how the peoples bordering the Mediterranean, North Sea, English Channel and eastern Atlantic related to the sea in all its aspects between approximately 1000-1500 AD. This book addresses questions such as: How was the sea represented in poems and other writings? And, what kinds of boats were used and how were they built?