Cover illustration: The Voyage of the Cardinal Infante Ferdinand of Spain from Barcelona to Genoa in April 1633, with Neptune Calming the Tempest by Peter Paul Rubens (1635). Conserved at the Harvard Art Museums, object number: 1942.174. Photo: © President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Cattelan, Stefano author
Title: Mare clausum : the formation of the law of the sea in pre-modern state practice and legal doctrine (c.1350-1650) / by Stefano Cattelan.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Academic Publishers, Inc, 2025. | Series: Legal history library ; volume 77 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2025029963 | ISBN 9789004741393 hardback | ISBN 9789004741409 epub
Subjects: LCSH: Mare clausum | Law of the seaââHistory | Freedom of the seasââHistory | Maritime lawââHistory
Classification: LCC KZA1340 .C38 2025 | DDC 341.4/50903ââdc23/eng/20250708
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2025029963
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issn 1874-1793
isbn 978-90-04-74139-3 (hardback)
isbn 978-90-04-74140-9 (e-book)
DOI 10.1163/9789004741409
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