The Maritime Conflict Management in Atlantic Europe, 1200-1600 project, run by Louis Sicking (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Universiteit Leiden) and funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), sets out to study the various forms of maritime conflict resolution in Medieval Europe with the aim of contributing to answering roughly four questions: What role did maritime conflicts play in the development of international diplomacy and law in pre-modern Europe (1200-1600)? In what ways did different political authorities negotiate and seek to resolve trans-national maritime conflicts? How successful were their strategies? In what ways did the victims of maritime conflicts claim and obtain compensation for the harm caused?

The project is based at the Institute for History (Universiteit Leiden) and as its partner institutions has the LIttoral, ENvironment and Societies (Université de La Rochelle), the Universidad de Cantabria, the Instituto de Estudios Medievales y Renacentistas (Universidad de la Laguna) and the IEM. The project brings together Dutch, French, Spanish and Portuguese medievalists and counts on the participation of three members of IEM: Amélia Aguiar Andrade (coordinator of the Portuguese team), Flávio Miranda and Gonçalo Melo da Silva (also a member of the Dutch team).

Within the framework of this project, IEM-NOVA FCSH is organising the seminar: “Central Governments and the Resolution of Maritime Conflicts, 1200-1600” on the 25-26 October 2018.

Registration to attend remains open until 30 September.

Location: Lisbon, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Nova University of Lisbon, Tower B, Auditorium 1
Organisation: Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM) of the School of Social Sciences and Humanties, Nova University (NOVA FCSH); Universiteit Leiden; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Organisers: Amélia Aguiar Andrade, Flávio Miranda, Gonçalo Melo da Silva and Louis Sicking