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Scottish Historical Review Monographs

'Of Laws of Ships and Shipmen'Medieval Maritime Law and its Practice in Urban Northern Europe

By Edda Frankot

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About this book

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.

Table of contents

Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1. A History of Maritime Law in Northern Europe; 2. Shipwreck, Jettison and Ship Collision in Maritime Law; 3. The Five Towns Introduced; 4. Written Law: Urban Collections of Sea Laws; 5. Written Law: Local Developments in Lawmaking ; 6. Legal Practice: the Administration of Maritime Justice; 7. Legal Practice: Maritime Proceedings at the Urban Courts; Final Conclusions; Bibliography.

About the author

Edda Frankot

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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