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'Of Laws of Ships and Shipmen'
Medieval Maritime Law and its Practice in Urban Northern Europe
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A comparative analysis of maritime law and its administration in five northern European towns. This volume is an important addition to the history of Scotland and European law, utilising innovative research and methodologies to highlight Scotland's position in medieval Europe as a sophisticated legal player. It...
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A comparative analysis of maritime law and its administration in five northern European towns. This volume is an important addition to the history of Scotland and European law, utilising innovative research and methodologies to highlight Scotland's position in medieval Europe as a sophisticated legal player. It places Scotland in a wider historical framework for the time and reveals the extent of its maritime connections and influence.
It has often been assumed that there was a common maritime law in northern Europe, shared between skippers and merchants who conducted their business along the North Sea and Baltic littoral. This study examines this assumption by studying the dissemination of law compilations across this region, and by comparing the contents of these and the judgments passed by urban courts in cases of shipwreck, jettison and ship collision.
Medieval maritime law has never before been the subject of a major study in the English language. The practice of maritime law has, up until now, largely been ignored. Of Laws of Ships and Shipmen is the first book to offer a comparison of maritime laws and court proceedings. It is also unique in that it provides a truly comparative history, covering a large geographical area stretching from Aberdeen on the North Sea coast to Reval (present-day Tallinn) in the innermost regions of the Baltic.
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ISBN: 9781399563611
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 30 April 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Illustration: 6 black and white illustrations
Audience: Professional and scholarly
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Width: 156.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 240
About the Author
Edda Frankot completed her PhD in History and Law at the University of Aberdeen. Since then, she has worked as a research fellow at the universities of Groningen and Aberdeen, before becoming a lecturer in History at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam in 2011. She is the co-editor of Baltic Connections. Archival Guide to the Maritime Relations of the Countries around the Baltic Sea (including the Netherlands) 1450-1800.
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