Contents
Introduction9
Thomas Heebøll-Holm, Philipp Höhn, and Gregor Rohmann
I. Between Criminalization and Compromise:
Dealing with Maritime Violence in Medieval Legal Pluralism
Piracy, Patriotism, and Profit in England around 140033
Thomas Heebøll-Holm
The Family Business: Royal Embargo and the Smugglers, Captains, and Councilors of Barcelona's Marquet Family57
Marie Kelleher
Popes and Pirates: Vatican Sources Regarding Violence at Sea
(12th-15th Centuries)75
Tobias Daniels
Cargoes, Courts, and Compromise: The Management of Maritime
Plunder in the Burgundian Low Countries107
Bart Lambert
II. Islands, Ports, and Markets: Connectivity and Marginalization in the Maritime World
Pirate Places, Merchant Spaces? Distribution and Criminalization in the Late Medieval Baltic Sea127
Philipp Höhn
Conceptualizing Danish "Piracy", c.1460-1525: A Criminalized
Economy or a Circular Exchange of Goods, Money, and People?145
Frederik Lynge Vognsen
Pirates on the Coast: Littoral Expansion and Maritime Predation
in Liguria and Dalmatia, 1300-1600165
Emily Sohmer Tai
Islands and Maritime Conflicts: Gotland around 1500189
Michael Meichsner
The Making of Connectivity: How Hamburg Tried
to Gain Control over the Elbe River (13th-16th Centuries)207
Gregor Rohmann
III. Enforcing Markets, Economics of Violence, and the Formation of Power
Maritime Violence between Legitimising Discourses, Politics, and Economic Interests: Genoa's Conquest of Chios and Phocaea247
Christoph Dartmann
The Venetian Coast Guards: Staple Policy, Seaborne Law
Enforcement, and State Formation in the 14th Century.269
Georg Christ
"To Make Good Peace or Total War": Trade, Piracy, and the Construction
of Portugal's Maritime State in the Later Middle Ages (1350-1550)297
Flavio Miranda & Amândio Barros
From the Baltic to the North Sea: Gda?sk City Councillor Bernd
Pawest's Maritime Service in 1471-72313
Beata Mo?ejko
Policing the Sea: Enforcing the Papal Embargo on Trade
with "Infidels"329
Mike Carr
Henning II of Putbus, "Piracy", the Øresund-fortresses, and
the Right of Salvage. 343
Alexander Krey
Works Cited371
Authors429