IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 736: How to Perceive of Piracy and Maritime Violence in Late Medieval Europe, I
Tuesday 5 July 2016, 14.15-15.45
| Organisers: | Thomas Heebøll-Holm, Institut for Historie, Syddansk Universitet, Odense Gregor Rohmann, Historisches Seminar, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Georg Christ, School of Arts, Languages & Cultures, University of Manchester |
| Paper 736-a | A Farewell to Piracy: The 'Hanse', the 'Vitalian Brethren', and Maritime Violence in the Baltic around 1400 (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Trade, Economics - Urban, Law, Maritime and Naval Studies |
| Paper 736-b | Merchant Pirates? Pirate Traders?: Violent Seizure as Part of Merchants's Conflict Regulation in the Baltic Sea and North Sea, 1370-1430 (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Trade, Economics - Urban, Law, Maritime and Naval Studies |
| Paper 736-c | The Ruler and the Pirate: Accepting and Denying Political Responsibility for the Actions of the ruyteren ter zee in Northern Europe in the 16th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Trade, Economics - Urban, Law, Maritime and Naval Studies |
| Abstract | Modern historiography usually claims that medieval trade was constantly threatened by pirates and that piracy was endemic in medieval Europe. The sessions 'How to Perceive of Piracy and Maritime Violence in Late Medieval Europe' I & II aim at challenging this assumption. By bringing together specialists in medieval maritime history from Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United States, we seek to investigate the role of merchants and mariners as both victims and agents of violence at sea, as well as that of public authorities and institutions in the curbing or encouragement of maritime predatory activity. Thus these sessions seek to shed new light on the grey area between war, trade, and crime. |