CONTENTS -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- A Note on Currency -- 1. Introduction -- Cicero and Saint Augustine -- Preliminary Definitions -- Pirate Terminology -- Outline of the Argument -- Method and Sources -- 2. The Anatomy of Medieval Piracy -- The Vessels of Trade and War -- The Pirate Assault -- The Fate of Plundered Goods and the Victims of Piracy -- 3. Ports and Wine -- Bayonne -- The Cinque Ports -- Normandy -- Wine Trade -- 4. Guerra Maritima -- The Cinque Ports' Account of the Norman Piracies -- Philippe le Bel's Citation of Edward I to Appear in Court in 1293 -- The Chroniclers' Portrayal of Maritime War and Its Causes -- The Breton Context -- Dogs, Baucens and a Raid Up the Charente -- The Hanging of Mariners with Dogs -- The Baucens -- A Raid Up the Charente -- Guerra -- 5. The Laws of the Sea and the Principles of Reprisal -- The Law Merchant -- The Rôles d'Oléron -- The Principles of Reprisal -- Arrest and Seizure -- Debt -- Henry de Oreford of Ipswich and the Procedure of Restitution -- Reprisals and Letters of Marque -- The Bayonnais Letters of Marque -- 6. The Sea, The March and Sovereignty -- Terrestrial Marches -- A Maritime March -- The Process of Montreuil, 1306 -- Sovereignty: The Duke of Gascony, the King of England and the King of France -- 7. Peace and Piracy Containment -- Peace and Order in the Middle Ages -- Bayonne, the Cinque Ports and Great Yarmouth -- Incidents of Piracy and the Non-application of the Treaty -- Flanders and Portugal -- Castile-The Change of a Procedure -- 1306-1311 -- Aftermath -- Bayonne-Normandy -- 1282 -- 1316-1318 -- Piracy and the War of Saint-Sardos -- Lex Talionis and the English Reform of Punishment -- 8. Crime and Lack of Punishment? -- Violence and Killing -- Robbery and Theft -- Imprisonment as Punishment -- Punishment and Piracy -- 9. Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Chronology.

Appendix 2: Maps -- Normandy -- Bayonne and the Castilian Ports -- The Cinque Ports' Primary Members and Calais -- The West Coast of Brittany -- The English East Coast -- The English Southwest Coast -- The Cinque Ports, Calais and the Flemish Ports -- Bordeaux and the Charente Area -- Appendix 3: The Seneschal Rostand de Soler's Report to Edward on the Norman Depredations in Saintonge in 1293 -- Appendix 4: Answer of the Men of the Cinque Ports and Bayonne to Charges of Piracy during the Maritime War of 1292-93 -- Bibliography -- Index.