Commerce, citizenship, and identity in legal history / / edited by Dave De Ruysscher [and four others].

• Superior document: Legal History Library ; 54
• Author: Identity, Citizenship and Commerce (Workshop) Vrije Universiteit Brussels)
• TeilnehmendeR: Ruysscher, Dave de,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Legal History Library ; 54.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (230 pages)
• Notes: Includes papers from the "Workshop Identity, Citizenship and Commerce" held at Vrije Universiteit Brussels on 7 November 2019.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 900447286X
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Dave De Ruysscher [and four others].

Legal historians have analysed the characteristics of merchant guilds and nationes (i.e., associations of foreign merchants), as well as the political clout of merchants, including foreign ones. However, how the legal status of citizens related to the merchant class and how its contents were influenced by trade remains largely unclear. Did governments have a policy of citizenship that was tailored to commercial interests? Were foreign merchants belonging to a separate legal category of resident? If so, what defined this category? To what extent could different types of legal status and membership of communities or guilds overlap? And how did all this affect merchants' identities, their self-images of belonging? This collection of essays provides anwers to these questions. Contributors are: Sonja Breustedt, Pieter De Reu, Gijs Dreijer, Maurits den Hollander, Marco In't Veld, Marta Lupi, Manon Moerman, Remko Mooi, Patrick Naaktgeboren, and Joost Possemiers.