IMC 2020: Sessions

Session 626: Maritime Conflicts in the Borders of the Medieval Iberian Atlantic

Tuesday 7 July 2020, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:	Instituto de Estudios Medievales y Renacentistas, Universidad de La Laguna / Projecto 'El Mar como Frontera. Transgresiones Legales en el Atlántico Bajo Medieval', Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation & Universities
Organiser:	Roberto J. González Zalacain, Instituto de Estudios Medievales y Renacentistas, Universidad de La Laguna
Moderator/Chair:	Víctor Muñoz-Gómez, Instituto Universitario de Estudios Medievales y Renacentistas, Universidad de La Laguna
Paper 626-a	Conflicts in Jurisdictional Boundaries: Fishermen and Merchants on the Guadalete River and the Bay of Cádiz (Andalusia, Spain) (Language: English) Enrique José Ruiz Pilares, Departamento de Historia, Geografía y Filosofía, Universidad de Cádiz Index terms: Economics - Trade, Social History
Paper 626-b	Castile and the Maritime Border in the 14th Century: Corsarism, Navigation, and Trade (Language: English) Daniel Ríos Toledano, Departamento de Historia Geografía y Filosofía Universidad de Cádiz Index terms: Economics - Trade, Maritime and Naval Studies
Paper 626-c	Crimes and Justices on the Atlantic Border: The Crown, the Algarve Port Towns, and the Resolution of Maritime Conflicts in Late Middle Ages (Language: English) Gonçalo Melo Silva, Instituto de Estudos Medievais Universidade Nova de Lisboa Index terms: Maritime and Naval Studies, Social History
Abstract	This session looks at the conflicts in the maritime borders, specifically in the Atlantic coast of the Iberian peninsula and the Atlantic archipelagos. Ruiz Pilares analyses the conflicts between fishermen and merchant in the Lower Andalusia, who in many cases came into conflict by their different economic interests. Ríos Toledano continues in the same area, studying piracy against the Castilian ports by Genovese and Catalonian sailors. Finally, Melo da Silva explores the same topic on the Portuguese coast.