"Before the Mast: Life and Death Aboard the Mary Rose&q

[Tibbie Croser]

This is the book published about a year ago on the nonmilitary artifacts found in the Mary Rose wreck. I've skimmed or read more than half the book so far.

It's awesome. A superb value for the price. It's going to be one of the definitive references for 16th-century material culture. The details and illustrations, both of original finds and of reconstructions, will enable craftspeople to reproduce many types of items: leather, woodwork, basketry, ceramic, metal. The material may be relevant to earlier periods, too, since the authors sometimes reference similar objects that are in 15th-century artworks. What's especially valuable is that the items range in quality, from more-elaborate, higher-end objects to simple, more crude objects that belonged to common sailors.

I eagerly await the next volume, "Weapons of Warre," which will cover weapons and armor.

[earnest carruthers]

Yes, it is, well worth getting it.

Also as you rightly say there is much that can be back referenced to the 15thc, the tools are no different than ones portrayed in earlier art, the boxes seem to match earlier methods. It is the embellishment and style of some things that are Tudor.

All round an excellent book.

[Allen Reed]

This is the book published about a year ago on the nonmilitary artifacts found in the Mary Rose wreck. I've skimmed or read more than half the book so far.

It's awesome. A superb value for the price. It's going to be one of the definitive references for 16th-century material culture. The details and illustrations, both of original finds and of reconstructions, will enable craftspeople to reproduce many types of items: leather, woodwork, basketry, ceramic, metal. The material may be relevant to earlier periods, too, since the authors sometimes reference similar objects that are in 15th-century artworks. What's especially valuable is that the items range in quality, from more-elaborate, higher-end objects to simple, more crude objects that belonged to common sailors.

I eagerly await the next volume, "Weapons of Warre," which will cover weapons and armor.

The "Mary Rose" is one of my favorite topics. Can you provide an ISBN or other publsihing info for this book?

Allen

[Brian W. Rainey]

Info on the book.....

Before the Mast: Life and Death Aboard the Mary Rose