As Nicholson writes, “No nation could be said to have achieved ‘control of the sea’ during the Middle Ages, as it was never possible to keep track of where a ship-borne enemy might be in order to attack and eliminate it.” And that’s why Stanton writes that “whoever controlled the shorelines also controlled the seas.

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Medieval states generally lacked the bureaucratic underpinnings to support a standing navy, as Susan Rose’s Medieval Naval Warfare 1000-1500 argues.

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