Louis Sicking
Biographic Data
| ID | 1515919 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louis Sicking |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louis |
| FAMILY NAME | Sicking |
| SIGNATURE | SICKING L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9694-0536 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
European expansion in the Indian Ocean and Pacific, 1450–1850
This chapter studies the history of European expansion in the oceans and the seas stretching east from the Cape of Good Hope. It aims to look at European violent activity here within the broader context of the history of the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal, the South Chinese Sea, and the Pacific Ocean. In this short chapter, only a few major developments can be traced. Roughly three phases can be di…
History of the Hanse
This article explores 150 years of historiography of the Hanse, the premodern trade network of mainly Low German merchants and their towns. It focusses on the construction of its infrastructure (the Hanseatic History Association, its source publications and its journal) and on the deconstruction of viewing the history of the Hanse in terms of its rise, greatness and fall. Instead, it looks at three different ways to grasp and understand the Hanse…
Counts, cities and commerce
Over the past few decades, the historiography of international trade in late medieval Europe has been greatly influenced by the New Institutional Economics. Central in this perspective is the claim that economic outcomes were primarily determined by so-called institutions, or the rules of the economic game. The present article contributes to this debate by exploring the explanatory factors that impacted upon the choice of the main commercial mark…
Conflict Management in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, 1000-1800
Pre-modern long-distance trade was fraught with risks which often created conflicts of interest. The ensuing disputes and the ways the actors involved dealt with them belong to the field of conflict management. How did victims of maritime conflicts claim compensation? How did individual actors and public institutions negotiate disputes which transcended jurisdictional boundaries? What strategies, arrangements and agreements could contribute to ac…
The Medieval Origin of the Factory or the Institutional Foundations of Overseas Trade
The funduq originated partly from the pandocheion and partly from the caravanserail 5 : refreshment stations along caravan routes. Funduqs and fondacos existed around the Mediterranean throughout the Middle Ages, serving the "universal needs" of travelers and cross-cultural longdistance traders. The names and functions of these institutions changed over time, yet some basic elements remained of continuous importance: the lodging of travelers, the…
Funduq, Fondaco, Feitoria. The Portuguese Contribution to the Globalisation of an Institution of Overseas Trade
A particular kind of institutions contributed importantly to the organisation of overseas trade: funduqs and fondacos which originated around the medieval Mediterranean. This article aims to contribute to the debate on these institutions. This will be done by looking at the Portuguese feitoria, which may be considered as the missing link between the medieval Mediterranean institutions known as funduqs and fondacos and the early modern factories o…
The Pirate and the Admiral
Piracy holds a special place within the field of international law because of the universal jurisdiction that applies: any state may seize a pirate ship on the high seas and decide upon the penalties to be imposed, as is currently the case with Somali and West African pirates. Unlike today, piracy was the norm in pre-modern times. Maritime trade and piracy went hand in hand. At the same time, kings and emperors recruited their admirals from among…
The dichotomy of insularity
The importance of islands in maritime and global history is not yet understood in a comparative and long term perspective. This article aims to contribute to understanding the role of islands for the establishment, preservation and extension of maritime connections in medieval and early modern Europe, and beyond. Recognising that the nature of pre-modern source material complicates a systematic comparative approach to pre-modern island history, i…
Islands and maritime connections, networks and empires, 1200–1700
European Warfare, 1350–1750
The period 1350–1750 saw major developments in European warfare, which not only had a huge impact on the way wars were fought, but also are critical to long-standing controversies about state development, the global ascendancy of the West, and the nature of 'military revolutions' past and present. However, the military history of this period is usually written from either medieval or early-modern, and either Western or Eastern European, perspecti…
Beyond the Catch
List of Ilustrations List of Contributors Introduction Section One Landscape, Settlements and Spatial Organization 1. 'Dark Age Economics' revisited: the English Fish-Bone Evidence 600-1600 2. Viking Age Economics and the Origins of Commercial Cod Fisheries in the North Atlantic 3. Undertsanding a MEdieval Fishing Settlement along the Southern North Sea: Walraversijde, c. 1200-1630 4. Transformation of the MAritime Culturak Landscape of Atalntic …
Ports on the Border of the State, 1200–1800
La Hollande dans l'État bourguignon
L'article décrit la lutte de Philippe le Bon, duc de Bourgogne, pour le pouvoir en Hollande et l'intégration du comté dans l'État bourguignon naissant. La lutte entre l'héritière légitime du comté, Jacqueline de Bavière, et Philippe le Bon était liée aux conflits entres les Hoeken et les Kabeljauwen , qui pendant un siècle et demi ont régulièrement perturbé la société hollandaise. Dès son avènement comme comte de Hollande, Philippe a étendu sa po…
A Colonial Echo
Au moment de la fondation de la Communauté économique européenne par le Traité de Rome, la France avait encore un vaste empire colonial. Peu avant la fin des négociations en 1957, la France a lancé la demande d'une association de ses colonies au marché commun comme condition sine qua non pour sa participation à la CEE. Cette demande ne peut qu'être comprise dans le cadre de la politique coloniale française. Le processus de la décolonisation a peu…
Protection Costs and Profitability of the Herring Fishery in the Netherlands in the Sixteenth Century
In the Wake of Columbus
(2002). In the Wake of Columbus: The First Expedition Attempted from the Netherlands to the New World, 1517–1527. Terrae Incognitae: Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 34-45
In the Wake of Columbus
France and the Dutch Colonial Empire in the Nineteenth Century
In the historiography of the colonial empires in the nineteenth century, much attention has been paid to the large European powers Britain and France. When the Dutch colonial empire is studied in an international context it is mostly in relation to the British empire. However, little or no attention has been given by scholars to Franco-Dutch colonial relations. This is surprising given the fact that after Britain, France and the Netherlands were …
Francis Drake
The Evolution of the Sailing Navy, 1509-1815
A Colonial Echo
Au moment de la fondation de la Communauté économique européenne par le Traité de Rome, la France avait encore un vaste empire colonial. Peu avant la fin des négociations en 1957, la France a lancé la demande d'une association de ses colonies au marché commun comme condition sine qua non pour sa participation à la CEE. Cette demande ne peut qu'être comprise dans le cadre de la politique coloniale française. Le processus de la décolonisation a peu…
The dichotomy of insularity
The importance of islands in maritime and global history is not yet understood in a comparative and long term perspective. This article aims to contribute to understanding the role of islands for the establishment, preservation and extension of maritime connections in medieval and early modern Europe, and beyond. Recognising that the nature of pre-modern source material complicates a systematic comparative approach to pre-modern island history, i…
Ports on the Border of the State, 1200–1800
History of the Hanse
This article explores 150 years of historiography of the Hanse, the premodern trade network of mainly Low German merchants and their towns. It focusses on the construction of its infrastructure (the Hanseatic History Association, its source publications and its journal) and on the deconstruction of viewing the history of the Hanse in terms of its rise, greatness and fall. Instead, it looks at three different ways to grasp and understand the Hanse…
The Medieval Origin of the Factory or the Institutional Foundations of Overseas Trade
The funduq originated partly from the pandocheion and partly from the caravanserail 5 : refreshment stations along caravan routes. Funduqs and fondacos existed around the Mediterranean throughout the Middle Ages, serving the "universal needs" of travelers and cross-cultural longdistance traders. The names and functions of these institutions changed over time, yet some basic elements remained of continuous importance: the lodging of travelers, the…
In the Wake of Columbus
(2002). In the Wake of Columbus: The First Expedition Attempted from the Netherlands to the New World, 1517–1527. Terrae Incognitae: Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 34-45
The Evolution of the Sailing Navy, 1509-1815
Francis Drake
France and the Dutch Colonial Empire in the Nineteenth Century
In the historiography of the colonial empires in the nineteenth century, much attention has been paid to the large European powers Britain and France. When the Dutch colonial empire is studied in an international context it is mostly in relation to the British empire. However, little or no attention has been given by scholars to Franco-Dutch colonial relations. This is surprising given the fact that after Britain, France and the Netherlands were …
In the Wake of Columbus
(2002). In the Wake of Columbus: The First Expedition Attempted from the Netherlands to the New World, 1517–1527. Terrae Incognitae: Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 34-45
In the Wake of Columbus
Protection Costs and Profitability of the Herring Fishery in the Netherlands in the Sixteenth Century
A Colonial Echo
Au moment de la fondation de la Communauté économique européenne par le Traité de Rome, la France avait encore un vaste empire colonial. Peu avant la fin des négociations en 1957, la France a lancé la demande d'une association de ses colonies au marché commun comme condition sine qua non pour sa participation à la CEE. Cette demande ne peut qu'être comprise dans le cadre de la politique coloniale française. Le processus de la décolonisation a peu…
La Hollande dans l'État bourguignon
L'article décrit la lutte de Philippe le Bon, duc de Bourgogne, pour le pouvoir en Hollande et l'intégration du comté dans l'État bourguignon naissant. La lutte entre l'héritière légitime du comté, Jacqueline de Bavière, et Philippe le Bon était liée aux conflits entres les Hoeken et les Kabeljauwen , qui pendant un siècle et demi ont régulièrement perturbé la société hollandaise. Dès son avènement comme comte de Hollande, Philippe a étendu sa po…
Ports on the Border of the State, 1200–1800
Beyond the Catch
List of Ilustrations List of Contributors Introduction Section One Landscape, Settlements and Spatial Organization 1. 'Dark Age Economics' revisited: the English Fish-Bone Evidence 600-1600 2. Viking Age Economics and the Origins of Commercial Cod Fisheries in the North Atlantic 3. Undertsanding a MEdieval Fishing Settlement along the Southern North Sea: Walraversijde, c. 1200-1630 4. Transformation of the MAritime Culturak Landscape of Atalntic …
European Warfare, 1350–1750
The period 1350–1750 saw major developments in European warfare, which not only had a huge impact on the way wars were fought, but also are critical to long-standing controversies about state development, the global ascendancy of the West, and the nature of 'military revolutions' past and present. However, the military history of this period is usually written from either medieval or early-modern, and either Western or Eastern European, perspecti…
The dichotomy of insularity
The importance of islands in maritime and global history is not yet understood in a comparative and long term perspective. This article aims to contribute to understanding the role of islands for the establishment, preservation and extension of maritime connections in medieval and early modern Europe, and beyond. Recognising that the nature of pre-modern source material complicates a systematic comparative approach to pre-modern island history, i…
Islands and maritime connections, networks and empires, 1200–1700
Funduq, Fondaco, Feitoria. The Portuguese Contribution to the Globalisation of an Institution of Overseas Trade
A particular kind of institutions contributed importantly to the organisation of overseas trade: funduqs and fondacos which originated around the medieval Mediterranean. This article aims to contribute to the debate on these institutions. This will be done by looking at the Portuguese feitoria, which may be considered as the missing link between the medieval Mediterranean institutions known as funduqs and fondacos and the early modern factories o…
The Pirate and the Admiral
Piracy holds a special place within the field of international law because of the universal jurisdiction that applies: any state may seize a pirate ship on the high seas and decide upon the penalties to be imposed, as is currently the case with Somali and West African pirates. Unlike today, piracy was the norm in pre-modern times. Maritime trade and piracy went hand in hand. At the same time, kings and emperors recruited their admirals from among…
Conflict Management in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, 1000-1800
Pre-modern long-distance trade was fraught with risks which often created conflicts of interest. The ensuing disputes and the ways the actors involved dealt with them belong to the field of conflict management. How did victims of maritime conflicts claim compensation? How did individual actors and public institutions negotiate disputes which transcended jurisdictional boundaries? What strategies, arrangements and agreements could contribute to ac…
The Medieval Origin of the Factory or the Institutional Foundations of Overseas Trade
The funduq originated partly from the pandocheion and partly from the caravanserail 5 : refreshment stations along caravan routes. Funduqs and fondacos existed around the Mediterranean throughout the Middle Ages, serving the "universal needs" of travelers and cross-cultural longdistance traders. The names and functions of these institutions changed over time, yet some basic elements remained of continuous importance: the lodging of travelers, the…
History of the Hanse
This article explores 150 years of historiography of the Hanse, the premodern trade network of mainly Low German merchants and their towns. It focusses on the construction of its infrastructure (the Hanseatic History Association, its source publications and its journal) and on the deconstruction of viewing the history of the Hanse in terms of its rise, greatness and fall. Instead, it looks at three different ways to grasp and understand the Hanse…
Counts, cities and commerce
Over the past few decades, the historiography of international trade in late medieval Europe has been greatly influenced by the New Institutional Economics. Central in this perspective is the claim that economic outcomes were primarily determined by so-called institutions, or the rules of the economic game. The present article contributes to this debate by exploring the explanatory factors that impacted upon the choice of the main commercial mark…
European expansion in the Indian Ocean and Pacific, 1450–1850
This chapter studies the history of European expansion in the oceans and the seas stretching east from the Cape of Good Hope. It aims to look at European violent activity here within the broader context of the history of the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal, the South Chinese Sea, and the Pacific Ocean. In this short chapter, only a few major developments can be traced. Roughly three phases can be di…
Geography (11 works) · History (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (6 works) · History (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Economic history (5 works) · Economics (5 works)