IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 1216: Ports and Piracy
Wednesday 14 July 2010, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | The Saxo-Institute, Københavns Universitet |
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| Organiser: | Thomas Heebøll-Holm, Saxo Instituttet, Københavns Universitet |
| Moderator/Chair: | Michael H. Gelting, Centre for Scandinavian Studies King's College University of Aberdeen 24 High Street OLD ABERDEEN AB24 3EB |
| Paper 1216-a | Whence Come These Pirates - and Why?: The Mystery of a 13th-Century Pirate Attack on the City of Copenhagen (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - General, Maritime and Naval Studies, Military History |
| Paper 1216-b | Piracy and Private War in the English Channel and the Biscayan around 1300 (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - General, Maritime and Naval Studies, Military History |
| Abstract | The session aims at exploring how trade, piracy, and politics were intertwined in the Middle Ages. The purpose of the session is to examine the similarities as well as the differences in conducting trade and piracy in the maritime theatres of the Baltic, the English Channel, and the Mediterranean. A central preoccupation of the papers will be how trade and piracy were two sides of the same commercial activity and thus were not fundamentally opposed activities conducted by specialists in either commerce or violence at sea. |