Faculty of Law, Department of Legal Theory and Legal History

Dit tweede deel van het verzameld werk van de Vlaamse rechtsgeleerde Filips Wielant (1441/1442-1520) bevat de eerste uitgave van de zestiende-eeuwse Franse vertaling van de Corte instructie omme jonghe practisienen in civile zaken, beter bekend als de Practijke civile. Dit traktaat vormde samen met de Practijke criminele (J. Monballyu ed., Corte instructie in materie criminele. Filips Wielant Verzameld werk I (Brussel 1995)) een leerboek over het procesrecht in burgerlijke en in strafzaken. Het is het eerste praktische handboek over deze materie in de Nederlanden. Het was Wielant, onder meer advocaat en raadsheer bij de Raad van Vlaanderen en raadsheer en vice-president van de Grote Raad van Mechelen, er bovenal om te doen zijn beschrijving zo nauw mogelijk te laten aansluiten bij de concrete rechtspraktijk. Het traktaat valt op door zijn pragmatische karakter en heldere en logische betoog.
Oudere uitgaven in het Nederlands waren onvolledig of waren gebaseerd op weinig betrouwbare handschriften van Wielants oorspronkelijke tekst. De nu uitgegeven Franse vertaling uit de zestiende eeuw gaat terug op de laatste Nederlandse redactie uit 1519 die slechts onvolledig is overgeleverd. Voor deze uitgave is gebruik gemaakt van de vier complete Franstalige handschriften. Door systematische vergelijking van deze handschriften is een betrouwbare uitgave gerealiseerd die inhoudelijk nauw aansluit bij de oorspronkelijke Nederlandse tekst.
Grote delen van Wielants werk zijn later overgenomen door Joost de Damhouder in diens Praxis rerum civilium. Het belang van Wielants traktaat voor de geschiedenis van het Europese procesrecht rechtvaardigt deze Franse uitgave.

This book investigates how the rulers of the Habsburg world empire developed and implemented a central maritime policy for the Netherlands and appointed an admiral of the sea or admiral-general for that purpose. It also explains why the Habsburgs were eventually unable to gain control of the maritime affairs of the Netherlands, in spite of the support of the powerful Burgundian Lords of Veere, who occupied the central position of admiral from 1491 to 1558. From their power base on the island of Walcheren in Zeeland, known as the key to the Netherlands at the time because of its central location between Holland, Flanders, Antwerp and the sea, they held an ideal vantage point for exercising the admiralship. The result not only offers an illuminating insight into the organisation of the war fleet, maritime trade and fishery, privateering and prize law in the Habsburg Netherlands, but also puts the success of the later Dutch Republic in a new perspective.

"Current concerns about the survival of marine life and the fishing industry have contributed to a rising interest in their past development. While much of the scholarship is focused on the recent past, this collection of essays presents new interpretations in the pre-industrial history of the fisheries by highlighting the consequences of the northern fisheries through an interdisciplinary approach, including the environment, economy, politics, and society in the medieval and early modern periods. A wide variety of topics related to the fisheries, such as settlement and spatial organisation, processing methods, trade, profitability and taxation, consumption, communication and cooperation, ranging from the Viking Age until industrialisation are dealt with in a long term perspective, offering new insights in the intriguing relationship between marine life and humanity.
Contributors are Inês Amorim, James H. Barrett, Christiaan van Bochove, Petra van Dam, Chloé Deligne, Carsten Jahnke, Alison M. Locker, Thomas H. McGovern, Sophia Perdikaris, Marnix Pieters, Peter Pope, Bo Poulsen, Callum M. Roberts, Louis Sicking, Dries Tys, Adri van Vliet, Annette de Wit, Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz.

Key words: medieval; zooarchaeology; modern; social; institutions; marine; economy; early; archaeology; trade; landscape; cod; fisheries; herring; species; history

France and the Netherlands were both important European colonial powers in the nineteenth century. This book, based primarily on archival research, is a contribution to the study of the relations between France and the Netherlands overseas in the nineteenth century. It focuses on those regions of the world where these two nations shared colonial borderlands: the island of St Martin in the Caribbean, the Gold Coast in Africa, and French Guiana and Surinam in South America. The border question in these regions is dealt with in the European context of colonial and international policy, as well as in the local context. The work addresses Franco-Dutch relations in the colonies, but also the interactions with the slaves on St Martin, the peoples of the Gold Coast (Ashanti, Agni of Sanwi, Fanti and Apollonians or Nzema), and the Maroons such as the Boni (Aluku) and the Ndyuka in the Guianese interior.

La France et les Pays-Bas ont été deux puissances coloniales européennes importantes au XIXe siècle. Les relations et rivalités coloniales franco-britanniques et néerlando-britanniques sont relativement bien connues. Par contre les relations coloniales franco-néerlandaises n'ont pas encore été étudiées – dans leur ensemble ou de façon systématique – au même degré. Ce livre, basé avant tout sur des recherches d'archives, contribue à l'étude des relations de la France et des Pays-Bas au xixe siècle outre-mer. Il s'agit des régions du monde où ces deux États avaient des territoires coloniaux limitrophes: en Amérique du Sud avec la Guyane française et le Surinam, aux Caraïbes avec l'île de Saint-Martin, et en Afrique avec la Côte de l'Or. Les questions frontalières dans ces régions sont traitées dans le contexte européen de la politique coloniale et internationale, ainsi que dans leur contexte local.
L'ouvrage traite des relations franco-néerlandaises dans ces colonies, mais aussi des interactions avec les esclaves de Saint-Martin, les peuples de la Côte de l'Or (Ashanti, Agni du Sanwi, Fanti et Apolloniens ou Nzema), et les Marrons à l'intérieur des Guyanes, comme les Boni (Aluku) et les Ndyuka.

Dutch Light in the 'Norwegian Night' focuses on the social, religious, political and naval relations between the Netherlands and Norway in the early modern era, during Norway's so-called 'night of four hundred years'. This expression became popular in nineteenth-century Norway as a reference to the period of Danish domination, which lasted until 1814. Meanwhile the Netherlands emerged as an independent republic that developed into one of the most powerful and prosperous states in the heart of Europe. Attracted by the brightness of its Golden Age many Norwegians left their country in search for a better life in the Dutch Republic. New data and insights are presented on the importance of the Norwegian immigration into the Dutch Republic, and on the integration of Norwegians in the Amsterdam Lutheran Church. Other articles are devoted to individuals whose achievements shaped the historical relations between the two countries. Finally, an unpublished lecture by Johan Huizinga offers a comparative analysis of the history of the Netherlands and Norway.