Dr. Edda Frankot

Lecturer

Biographical Note

Edda Frankot studied History and Medieval Studies at the University of Groningen before completing a PhD in History and Law at the University of Aberdeen on maritime law and its practice in the towns of Northern Europe. From 2005 to 2007 she was back at the University of Groningen as a postdoc researcher working on 2 projects: the NWO-funded ‘Digestum Vetus’ project which involved the digitisation of a fifteenth-century urban register from Kampen and the ‘Baltic Connections’ project which resulted in an archival guide (both online and in print) of the sources relating to the maritime relations between the Netherlands and the Baltic region (see publications). From 2007 to 2010 she was one of three researchers transcribing the ‘1641 Depositions’, a collaborative project of the University of Aberdeen, Trinity College Dublin and Cambridge University, co-funded by the British and Irish research councils and by Trinity College Dublin. This project resulted in an online edition of the depositions, which will also come out in print with the Irish Manuscripts Commission (see publications). She was a Tutor in History at the University of Aberdeen in 2010/11 before coming to the Erasmus University as a Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern History. Her research focuses mainly on maritime, urban and legal history of the later Middle Ages and early modern period.