Edda Frankot, ‘OF LAWS OF SHIPS AND SHIPMEN’: MEDIEVAL MARITIME LAW AND ITS PRACTICE IN URBAN NORTHERN EUROPE Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (www.euppublishing.com), 2012. xiv + 223 pp. ISBN 9780748646241. £45.00.
Author | J D Ford |
Date | 01 May 2013 |
Pages | 269-271 |
Published date | 01 May 2013 |
DOI | 10.3366/elr.2013.0160 |
The main title of the book under review is borrowed from a translation of the late thirteenth century
Oddly enough, the translation from which the main title of Dr Frankot's book is borrowed does not appear to have informed the urban practice referred to in the subtitle of her book. Encouraged to examine the rich burgh records of Aberdeen in a “north European” setting, Dr Frankot set out to compare the use of maritime law there with its use in Kampen on the Zuiderzee and Lübeck, Danzig and Reval on the Baltic. That the burgh courts of Aberdeen do not appear to have had direct access to a copy of the
So far as northern Europe is...
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