Shipwrecks, Risk, and Social Constructions of Disaster, 1565–1761

Brad Loewen is a professor of historical and maritime archaeology at the Université de Montréal. He has worked extensively in Québec, notably in Montréal and throughout the Saint Lawrence basin. He has a longstanding research interest on shipwrecks, the Basque fisheries, and Euro-Indigenous Contact in a maritime context.

Bernard Allaire (ORCID ID: 0000-0003-4533-7419) is a historian specializing in the Early Modern urban, maritime and colonial economies. He is the author of the book Pelleteries, manchons et chapeaux de castor, (Québec, Septentrion et Paris, Presses universitaires de Paris-Sorbonne, 1999); of Crépuscules ultramontains: marchands italiens et grand commerce à Bordeaux au XVIe siècle, (Bordeaux PUB, 2008); La Rumeur Dorée: Roberval et l'Amérique (Montréal, La Presse, 2013) and editor of the collective Law, Labour and Empire: Comparative Perspectives on seafarers c. 1500-1800, (London, Palgrave, 2015). He is associate researcher in history at the Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities, A6003 6th floor, Arts Block, Trinity College Dublin, College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland.