Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Flotsam and Jetsam in the Historiography of Maritime Trade and Conflicts -- Louis Sicking and Alain Wijffels -- 1 The Courts, the Qadi, and the 'People': Resolving Mercantile Disputes in the Medieval Islamic Mediterranean -- Jessica Goldberg -- 2 Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers? Byzantine Shipwreck and Salvage in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries -- Daphne Penna -- 3 Bjarkeyjarréttr and Fárrmanna Logh: Norse or European Laws of the Sea? -- Ian Peter Grohse -- 4 Du conflit aux conflits : marchands et gens de mer lors de la rupture de trêve en 1224 entre les rois anglais et français -- Laurence Jean-Marie -- 5 Maritime Conflicts and Their Resolution in Castile in the Thirteenth through the Fifteenth Centuries -- Eduardo Aznar Vallejo and Roberto J. González Zalacain -- 6 Maritime Conflicts and Larceny in the Bay of Biscay from the Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries -- Ana María Rivera Medina -- 7 Lutte contre la piraterie et construction de normes partagées entre chrétiens et musulmans en Méditerranée médiévale -- Dominique Valérian -- 8 Towards a Criminalisation of Piracy in Late Medieval England -- Thomas K. Heebøll-Holm -- 9 L'émergence du pirate atlantique dans le royaume de France à la fin du Moyen Âge -- Pierre Prétou -- 10 Maritime Conflict among Hundred Years' War Allies -- Tiago Viúla de Faria -- 11 In the Shadow of Other Empires: Genoese Merchant Networks and Their Conflicts across the Atlantic Ocean, ca. 1450-1530 -- Carlo Taviani -- 12 Handling Conflicts in Long-Distance Trade: A View of the Mediterranean through the Experience of Merchants Operating in the Kingdom of Valencia in the Late Sixteenth-Century -- Ana Belem Fernández Castro -- 13 Mediterranean and Atlantic Maritime Conflict Resolution: Critical Insights into Geographies of Conflict in the Early Modern Period -- Cátia Antunes and Kate Ekama -- 14 The Commercial Practices of Portuguese Jewish Merchants in London and Their Dispute with Samuel Hayne, Riding-Surveyor for his Majesty'sCustoms, 1680 -- Catarina Cotic Belloube -- 15 When the War Came to Barbary: Dutch Traders and the Management of Their Entry into Conflict with Algiers, 1755-1757 -- Thierry Allain -- 16 Les conflits permanents entre corsaires et neutres: L'exemple de la France et du Danemark au XVIIe siècle -- Pierrick Pourchasse -- Index of names of persons.

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