S. 4. 2. – Maritime Governance in pre-modern Atlantic Europe I

Chair: Richard Unger (University of British Columbia)

• Louis Sicking (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam / Leiden University) – Maritime governance in the late medieval Low Countries: Ius naufragii (‘right of wreck’) in Flanders and Holland
• Richard Blakemore (University of Reading) – Sovereigns of the Sea? State-formation and maritime empire in early modern Britain