Images
1 Salvage operation of the Ever Given 2
2 Pauwels van Overbeke, map of Antwerp (1568) 34
3 The Great Council of Mechlin under Charles the Bold 55
4 Titian, portrait of Emperor Charles V seated (1548) 103
5 Titian, portrait of Philip II in armour (1550s) 110
6 Anonymous, Antwerp’s bourse (1612–1648) 149
Tables
1 Jurisdictional complexity in the Southern Low Countries (fifteenth–sixteenth centuries) 54
2 Nationes in the Southern Low Countries (thirteenth–sixteenth centuries) 54
3 Ordonnances on maritime law in the Low Countries (fifteenth–sixteenth centuries) 58
4 Definitions of varieties of Averages (fifteenth–sixteenth centuries) 74
5 GA contributions and losses paid by Juan Henriquez (1562–1563) 151
6 GA contributions paid by Juan Henriquez (1562–1563) 151
7 Number of GA payments by insurers in the ledgers of Juan Henriquez, by the percentage of the insured sum (1562–1563) 152
8 Routes on which GA occurred, based on the ledgers of Juan Henriquez (1562–1563) (N = 165) 152
9 Payments of the flete y averías as a percentage of profits (1511–1514) 209
10 The Biscayer vs. Genoese case (1511–1540s) 242
11 GA in Juan Henriquez’s ledgers (1562–1563) 261
Maps
1 Map of the Low Countries around 1350 46
2 The Habsburg Low Countries in 1555, with years of conquest/acquisition 48
3 Spatial distribution of the insured routes of Juan Henriquez (1562–1563) 154
4 Spatial distribution of the insured routes of Juan Henriquez (1562–1563), Western Europe only 155