's Graeflijckeyts spaer-pot met sulck ellendig in-komen . te verrijcken:Het middeleeuwse strandrecht in Holland en Zeeland en de Hollandse strandrechtpraktijk tussen 1340 en 1400

In the Middle Ages, goods washed up on the beach or fished up from the sea were an important economic asset. The customs and rules that determined the status of these goods are referred to as the ‘law of wreck’ or ‘right of wreck’. Several competing interest groups were involved: the local inhabitants as salvagers, finders or beach combers; merchants, skippers and ship-owners; landowners and the prince. Seventeenth century Dutch lawyers like Hugo Grotius and Johan van Heemskerk painted a favourable picture of the law of wreck in the Dutch Republic by pointing to the greed of the medieval count... Mehr ...