IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 836: How to Perceive of Piracy and Maritime Violence in Late Medieval Europe, II
Tuesday 5 July 2016, 16.30-18.00
| 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: | Flávio Miranda, Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Universidade Nova de Lisboa / Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar: Cultura, Espaço e Memória, Universidade do Porto |
| Paper 836-a | 'By their fruits shall ye know them': Telling Pirates apart from Corsairs in the Medieval Mediterranean (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Trade, Economics - Urban, Law, Maritime and Naval Studies |
| Paper 836-b | Popes and Pirates: Paul Beneke and the Portinari-Triptych (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Economics - Trade, Law, Maritime and Naval Studies |
| Paper 836-c | Between Piratae and Milites Maritimis: A Tentative Typology of Medieval Maritime Predators (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Trade, Law, Maritime and Naval Studies, Military History |
| 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 seeks to shed new light on the grey area between war, trade, and crime. |