Migrating Words, Migrating Merchants, Migrating Law
Trading Routes and the Development of Commercial Law
Published on 21. November 2019
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-90-04-41583-6 (ISBN)
Description
Migrating Words, Migrating Merchants, Migrating Law examines the connections that existed between merchants' journeys, the languages they used and the development of commercial law in the context of late medieval and early modern trade. The book, edited by Stefania Gialdroni, Albrecht Cordes, Serge Dauchy, Dave De ruysscher and Heikki Pihlajamaeki, takes advantage of the expertise of leading scholars in different fields of study, in particular historians, legal historians and linguists. Thanks to this transdisciplinary approach, the book offers a fresh point of view on the history of commercial law in different cultural and geographical contexts, including medieval Cairo, Pisa, Novgorod, Luebeck, early modern England, Venice, Bruges, nineteenth century Brazil and many other trading centers.
Contributors are Cornelia Aust, Guido Cifoletti, Mark R. Cohen, Albrecht Cordes, Maria Fusaro, Stefania Gialdroni, Mark Haeberlein, Uwe Israel, Bart Lambert, David von Mayenburg, Hanna Sonkajaervi, and Catherine Squires.
Contributors are Cornelia Aust, Guido Cifoletti, Mark R. Cohen, Albrecht Cordes, Maria Fusaro, Stefania Gialdroni, Mark Haeberlein, Uwe Israel, Bart Lambert, David von Mayenburg, Hanna Sonkajaervi, and Catherine Squires.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
476 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-41583-6 (9789004415836)
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Stefania Gialdroni, Ph.D. (2009), is Assistant Professor of Medieval and Modern Legal History at the RomaTre University. Her main research topic is the history of commercial law. In 2011 she published the book East India Company. Una storia giuridica (1600-1708) (Il Mulino).
Albrecht Cordes is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Legal History and Civil Law at the Goethe University Frankfurt/Main. His research is especially focused on the history of commercial law, Hanseatic legal history and the history of conflict resolution.
Serge Dauchy is Research Director at the CNRS (Lille-France) and Professor of Legal History at the University Saint-Louis of Brussels. His main research topics are the history of civil procedure, comparative history of central courts and the history of Quebec.
Dave De ruysscher, Ph.D. (2009), is Associate Professor at Tilburg University and at Vrije Universiteit Brussels. As a legal historian and lawyer, he specialized in the history of commercial and private law of the early modern period and the nineteenth century.
Heikki Pihlajamaeki is Professor of Comparative Legal History at the University of Helsinki. He has published extensively on the legal history of Scandinavia, Europe and America, including Conquest and the Law in Swedish Livonia (ca. 1630-1710): A Case of Legal Pluralism in Early Modern Europe (Brill, 2017).
Albrecht Cordes is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Legal History and Civil Law at the Goethe University Frankfurt/Main. His research is especially focused on the history of commercial law, Hanseatic legal history and the history of conflict resolution.
Serge Dauchy is Research Director at the CNRS (Lille-France) and Professor of Legal History at the University Saint-Louis of Brussels. His main research topics are the history of civil procedure, comparative history of central courts and the history of Quebec.
Dave De ruysscher, Ph.D. (2009), is Associate Professor at Tilburg University and at Vrije Universiteit Brussels. As a legal historian and lawyer, he specialized in the history of commercial and private law of the early modern period and the nineteenth century.
Heikki Pihlajamaeki is Professor of Comparative Legal History at the University of Helsinki. He has published extensively on the legal history of Scandinavia, Europe and America, including Conquest and the Law in Swedish Livonia (ca. 1630-1710): A Case of Legal Pluralism in Early Modern Europe (Brill, 2017).
Content
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
?Albrecht Cordes and Stefania Gialdroni
Part 1: Mediterranean Networks
1 Migrating Words and Migrating Custom among the Geniza Merchants: Maimonides on Commercial Agency Law
?Mark R. Cohen
2 Propter ConversationemDiversarum Gentium: Migrating Words and Merchants in Medieval Pisa
?Stefania Gialdroni
3 ?Migrating Seamen, Migrating Laws'? An Historiographical Genealogy of Seamen's Employment and States' Jurisdiction in the Early Modern Mediterranean
?Maria Fusaro
4 Lingua Franca and Migrations
?Guido Cifoletti
Part 2: European Networks
5 Brokers as German-Italian Cultural Mediators in Renaissance Venice
?Uwe Israel
6 German-East Slavic (Language) Contacts in Legal Texts of the Thirteenth-Fifteenth Centuries
?Catherine Squires
7 The Language of the Law: The Luebeck Law Codes (ca. 1224-1642)
?Albrecht Cordes
8 A Legal World Market? The Exchange of Commercial Law in Fifteenth-Century Bruges
?Bart Lambert
9 Woerter fuer Wucher: Ius commune and the 16th Century Debate on the Legitimacy of South German Trading Houses
?David von Mayenburg
10 Transfer of Credit, Mercantile Mobility, and Language among Jewish Merchants in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Central and East Central Europe
?Cornelia Aust
Part 3: Atlantic Networks
11 Coming to Terms with the Atlantic World: German Merchants, Language, and English Legal Culture in the Early Modern Period
?Mark Haeberlein
12 Laws - Customs - Conventions: French Merchants and French Legal Doctrines in the Brazilian Law Courts in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
?Hanna Sonkajaervi
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
?Albrecht Cordes and Stefania Gialdroni
Part 1: Mediterranean Networks
1 Migrating Words and Migrating Custom among the Geniza Merchants: Maimonides on Commercial Agency Law
?Mark R. Cohen
2 Propter ConversationemDiversarum Gentium: Migrating Words and Merchants in Medieval Pisa
?Stefania Gialdroni
3 ?Migrating Seamen, Migrating Laws'? An Historiographical Genealogy of Seamen's Employment and States' Jurisdiction in the Early Modern Mediterranean
?Maria Fusaro
4 Lingua Franca and Migrations
?Guido Cifoletti
Part 2: European Networks
5 Brokers as German-Italian Cultural Mediators in Renaissance Venice
?Uwe Israel
6 German-East Slavic (Language) Contacts in Legal Texts of the Thirteenth-Fifteenth Centuries
?Catherine Squires
7 The Language of the Law: The Luebeck Law Codes (ca. 1224-1642)
?Albrecht Cordes
8 A Legal World Market? The Exchange of Commercial Law in Fifteenth-Century Bruges
?Bart Lambert
9 Woerter fuer Wucher: Ius commune and the 16th Century Debate on the Legitimacy of South German Trading Houses
?David von Mayenburg
10 Transfer of Credit, Mercantile Mobility, and Language among Jewish Merchants in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Central and East Central Europe
?Cornelia Aust
Part 3: Atlantic Networks
11 Coming to Terms with the Atlantic World: German Merchants, Language, and English Legal Culture in the Early Modern Period
?Mark Haeberlein
12 Laws - Customs - Conventions: French Merchants and French Legal Doctrines in the Brazilian Law Courts in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
?Hanna Sonkajaervi
Index