CONFERENCE: Conflict Management in the Atlantic, the North Sea and the Baltic, 1200-1600: Actors, Institutions and Practices of Dispute Settlement [Stichting Aemilius Papinianus] (Amsterdam/Leiden, 24-25 MAY 2019)

Conference summary:

As research on conflict management continues to flourish, its maritime dimension still deserves more attention. The overall emphasis is still mainly on state formation and should be qualified, therefore, as land-oriented. The current conference aims at focusing on the maritime perspective, and proposes an actor and dispute-centered approach. How did victims of maritime conflicts claim compensation or reparation? How and to what extent did they get support from authorities and polities? How did individual actors and public institutions negotiate disputes which transcended jurisdictional boundaries? What strategies, arrangements and agreements were resorted to in order to achieve resolution of those conflicts, and to what effect? So far, students of the maritime dimension, have studied either the Atlantic, the North Sea region or the Baltic, creating separate historiographies. This conference will foster an exchange between scholars working on these three areas of research, allowing for a comparative and long-term perspective. This may reveal connections between the three seascapes and shed a useful light on the multiplicity and complexity of the paths chosen for the management of disputes.

	FRIDAY 24 MAY, STADSARCHIEF AMSTERDAM
9:45	Welcome and Introduction LOUIS SICKING, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/Universiteit Leiden
	Key Note
10:00	Changing Semantics and Practice of Maritime Conflict Management in Late Medieval Northern Europe GREGOR ROHMANN, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main
	Maritime Space, Expansion and Conflict Management
10:30	At the Centre of Atlantic, Mediterranean and African Exchanges. The Case of Portugal in the Later Middle Ages AMÉLIA AGUIAR ANDRADE, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCSH)/IEM
11:00	Break
11:30	Conflict Management in the International Trade with the North Atlantic Islands BART HOLTERMAN, Deutsches Schifffahrts-Museum, Bremerhaven
12:00	Conflict Management in ‘that remote wilde part of the worlde’: The informal Institutions of the (English) Newfoundland Fisheries, and their Limits, 1500-1634 JOSH IVINSON, University of Cambridge
12:30	General Discussion
13:00	Break
	The Emergence of Landscapes of Conflict Management
14:00	Shipwrecks, Churches, and Maritime Conflict Management in the Baltic, 1179 1318 PHILIPP HÖHN, Universität Halle-Wittenberg
14:30	‘Cut my hand off if they give you back your goods’. Reclaiming Looted Property in the Eastern Baltic about 1300 TOBIAS BOESTAD, Sorbonne, Paris/Stockholms Universitet
15.00	Maritime Conflict and Kingdoms Compared: England and Denmark c.1375 c.1415 THOMAS HEEBØLL-HOLM, Syddansk Universitet, Odense
15:30	Break
16:00	Störtebeker & Consortium. Showcasing maritime conflicts in an exhibition FRIEDERIKE HOLST, Europäisches Hansemuseum Lübeck
16:10	A “Sea” of Conflicts. The Strait of Gibraltar in the Fifteenth Century EDUARDO AZNAR VALLEJO and ROBERTO GONZÁLEZ ZALACAIN, Universidad de La Laguna
16:40	General Discussion
17:15	Drinks
	SATURDAY 25 MAY, UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN, KOG
	Competition, Cities and State Formation
9:30	The Resolution of Conflicts between Bilbao and Nantes at the End of the Middle Ages. From Letters of Marque and Reprisal to the Company of the Safe Conduct JESÚS A. SOLÓRZANO TELECHEA, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander and JOSÉ DAMIÁN GONZÁLEZ ARCE, Universidad de Murcia
10:00	About Legitimate and Illegitimate Seizure. Juridical and Diplomatic Conflict Resolution during and after the Wendish-Danish War, 1510-12 KILIAN BAUR, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
10:30	Law, Diplomacy, Blackmail: Conflict Management in the Hollandish Salt Ships Case in Danzig, 1564-1567 JUSTYNA WUBS-MROZEWICZ, Universiteit van Amsterdam
11:00	Break
	Ships, Taverns and Ports. Conflict Management among Sailors, Merchants and Local Authorities
11:30	Piracy and Prostitution. Crimes, Conflicts and Sailors in Helsingør, 1549-1556 FREDERIK LYNGE VOGNSEN, Aarhus Universitet
12:00	Managing Conflict between Deck, Dock, and Courtroom: Mariners, Merchants, and Mutiny in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries RICHARD BLAKEMORE, University of Reading
12:30	General Discussion

More information with Louis Sicking l.h.j.sicking@hum.leidenuniv.nl or l.h.j.sicking@vu.nl Philipp Höhn philipphoehn-Philipp@web.de.