The Hero and the Sea: Sea Captains and their Discontents

Jowitt, Claire ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5232-7003 (2017) The Hero and the Sea: Sea Captains and their Discontents. Revue de la Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, 74. ISSN 2117-590X

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Abstract

Early modern sea captains were at the vanguard of the English response to secure what was believed to be the nation’s share of territory and trade, and their activities are central to written accounts of explorations and adventures. This article takes as its focus two accounts of English sea captaincy of the “long 1590s.” To address the sea captain’s role in the processes of English overseas expansionism, I discuss first the importance of the execution in contested circumstances of Thomas Doughty, on the orders of Francis Drake on the first English circumnavigation, for understanding more generally the values and practice of leadership at sea. However, my chief concern is on the significance of the murky circumstances of the death of England’s celebrated second circumnavigator, Sir Thomas Cavendish, and the fractious conditions on board that led to it, for analysing the challenges and opportunities of sea captaincy in this period, and for examining the ideologies that supported it and which, in turn, it supported.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of History
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Medieval History Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Medieval and Early Modern Research Group
Related URLs:	http://journals.openedition.org/1718/888
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	03 Nov 2017 06:06
Last Modified:	24 Apr 2023 23:42
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/65346
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