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Jake Dyble

Department: History
Discipline: History

Project Summary

My thesis bears the working title General Average in the Free Port of Livorno, 1600-1700. Livorno was refounded by the Medici Grand Dukes in the late sixteenth-century as the world's first 'free port'. The free port first reduced tariffs, then abolished them. It also allowed merchants of whatever origin or religion to trade equally (at least in theory) rather restricting this to certain privileged groups. General Average (GA) meanwhile was a legal procedure for sharing extraordinary costs across all participants in a maritime venture. An examination of GA in Livorno thus sheds light on the operation of maritime law across cultural and 'national' boundaries during an era of important change for global commerce.

For my MPhil I completed a thesis on the unpublished 'Winchester chronicle' of Richard of Devizes, and also conducted futher research on working conditions in the late-medieval building trade.

Authored Publications/Reports

Jacob Dyble (2017) The Winchester Annals, MS CCCC 339 , Richard Löwenherz: König – Ritter – Gefangener