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Understanding the Sources of Early Modern and Modern Commercial Law
The contributions of Understanding the Sources of Early Modern and Modern Commercial Law: Courts, Statutes, Contracts, and Legal Scholarship show the wealth of sources which historians of commercial law use to approach their subject. Depending on the subject, historical research on mercantile law must be ready to open up to different approaches and sources in a truly imaginative and interdisciplinary way. This, more than many other branches of law, has always been largely non-state law. Normative, ‘official’, sources are important in commercial law as well, but other sources are often needed to complement them. The articles of the volume present an excellent assemblage of those sources. Anja Amend-Traut, Albrecht Cordes, Serge Dauchy, Dave De ruysscher, Olivier Descamps, Ricardo Galliano Court, Eberhard Isenmann, Mia Korpiola, Peter Oestmann, Heikki Pihlajamäki, Edouard Richard, Margrit Schulte Beerbühl, Guido Rossi, Bram Van Hofstraeten, Boudewijn Sirks, Alain Wijffels, and Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz.
The Company in Law and Practice: Did Size Matter? (Middle Ages-Nineteenth Century)
This volume brings together nine chapters by specialist legal historians that address the topic of the scale and size of companies, in both legal and economic history. The bundled texts cover different periods, from the Middle Ages, the Early Modern Period, to the nineteenth century. They analyse the historical development of basic features of present-day corporations and of other company types, among them the general and limited partnership. These features include limited liability and legal personality. A detailed overview is offered of how legal concepts and mercantile practice interacted, leading up to the corporate characteristics that are so important today. Contributors are: Anja Amend-Traut, Luisa Brunori, Dave De ruysscher, Stefania Gialdroni, Ulla Kypta, Bart Lambert, Annamaria Monti, Carlos Petit, and Bram Van Hofstraeten.
Prometheus Tamed
Over 8,200 large city fires broke out between 1000 and 1939 CE in Central Europe. Prometheus Tamed inquires into the long-term history of that fire ecology, its local and regional frequencies, its relationship to climate history. It asks for the visual and narrative representation of that threat in every-day life. Institutional forms of fire insurance emerged in the form of private joint stock companies (the British model, starting in 1681) or in the form of cameralist fire insurances (the German model, starting in 1676). They contributed to shape and change society, transforming old communities of charitable solidarity into risk communities, finally supplemented by networks of cosmopolite aid. After 1830, insurance agencies expanded tremendously quickly all over the globe: Cultural clashes of Western and native perceptions of fire risk and of what is insurance can be studied as part of a critical archaeology of world risk society and the plurality of modernities.
Intervention and State Sovereignty in Central Europe, 1500-1780
Interventions in other states on behalf of their populations is often portrayed as a novel phenomenon in state practice, one which breaches the old principle of sovereignty. But is this really a new practice? Patrick Milton argues that such interventions occurred frequently as far back as the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.
Conquest and the Law in Swedish Livonia (ca. 1630–1710)
In Conquest and the Law in Swedish Livonia (ca. 1630-1710), Heikki Pihlajamäki offers an exciting account of the law in seventeenth-century Livonia, conquered by Sweden. The volume demonstrates how the differences in legal cultures affected the Livonian judiciary and legal procedure in the region.
Kaufmännische Rechtsgutachten des 18. Jahrhunderts
Es gab im Alten Reich zwar vielfältige Gerichtsstrukturen, jedoch konnten diese nicht immer effektiv genutzt werden, sei es, weil sie keine Zuständigkeit hatten, sei es, weil ihnen die wechselrechtliche Expertise fehlte. Die Pareres waren somit nicht nur Bestandteil der Rechts- und Gerichtslandschaft des Alten Reiches, sondern verkörperten diese par excellence und waren in ihrer Rechtspluralität quasi Sinnbild derselben. Das Buch widmet sich der nahezu unerschlossenen Quellengruppe der kaufmännischen Rechtsgutachten (Pareres), die in der Frühen Neuzeit in vielen bedeutenden europäischen Handelszentren erstellt wurden. Dabei legt die Verfasserin den Fokus auf die Erschließung des Frankfurter Bestandes aus dem 18. Jahrhundert. Die Gutachten weisen eine große Bandbreite handels- und vor allem wechselrechtlicher Problemstellungen auf, die mit Hilfe der Pareres sowohl gerichtlich als auch außergerichtlich gelöst wurden. Des Weiteren skizziert die Verfasserin die Entstehungsgeschichte der als Gutachter tätigen Frankfurter Börsenvorsteher und untersucht mittels eines komparatistischen Zugriffs die Funktion der Pareres im Allgemeinen.
Migrating Words, Migrating Merchants, Migrating Law
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 Pihlajamäki, 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, Lübeck, 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 Häberlein, Uwe Israel, Bart Lambert, David von Mayenburg, Hanna Sonkajärvi, and Catherine Squires.
Gericht und Verfahren in der Stadt und im Hochstift Würzburg
Der Übergang vom Spätmittelalter zur Frühen Neuzeit ist durch eine Veränderung der Gerichtslandschaften im Heiligen Römischen Reich geprägt. Im Rahmen der weltlichen Gerichtsbarkeit entwickelten sich durch die Ausbreitung des Rechtsmittels der Appellation Instanzenzüge, die nicht nur durch neu entstehende Foren gestaltet wurden, sondern auch das Verhältnis längst bestehender Gerichte zueinander nachhaltig veränderten. Ziel dieser Studie ist es, diese grundlegenden Transformationsprozesse am Beispiel des Hochstifts Würzburg nachzuzeichnen und auf Basis der reichskammergerichtlichen Quellenüberlieferung mit dem Würzburger Kanzleigericht ein bisher weitgehend unbeachtetes territoriales Obergericht in seiner Entwicklung und Funktionsweise darzustellen. Hierbei werden etwa Aspekte der Herrschaftsverdichtung, der Rechtsrezeption und des Verhältnisses von Norm und Rechtspraxis anschaulich illustriert.
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***Angaben zur beteiligten Person Schmitt: Christian O. Schmitt wurde mit dieser Studie an der Universität Würzburg promoviert.
Money in the Western Legal Tradition
Monetary law is essential to the functioning of private transactions and international dealings by the state: nearly every legal transaction has a monetary aspect. Money in the Western Legal Tradition presents the first comprehensive analysis of Western monetary law, covering the civil law and Anglo-American common law legal systems from the High Middle Ages up to the middle of the 20th century. Weaving a detailed tapestry of the changing concepts of money and private transactions throughout the ages, the contributors investigate the special contribution made by legal scholars and practitioners to our understanding of money and the laws that govern it. Divided in five parts, the book begins ...
