S. 4.5. – Maritime Governance in pre-modern Atlantic Europe I

S. 4.5. – Maritime Governance in pre-modern Atlantic Europe I

Chair: Richard Unger

Thomas Heebøll-Holm (University of Southern Denmark) – The Sea in the Danish Provincial Laws (1201-1241): Maritime Governance and Royal Power at the Junction of North and the Baltic Seas

Louis Sicking (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam / Leiden University) – Maritime governance in the late medieval Low Countries: Ius naufragii (‘right of wreck’) in Flanders and Holland

Richard Blakemore (University of Reading) – Sovereigns of the Sea? State-formation and maritime empire in early modern Britain