Commerce, citizenship, and identity in legal history / / 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 influen...

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Superior document:Legal History Library ; 54
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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.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Bannum in Italian Bankruptcy Law (Fourteenth-Fifteenth Centuries)
  •   Marta Lupi
  • 2 "Without regard to foreignness" The Reciprocal Equal Treatment of Foreign Creditors in the Early Modern German Territories
  •   Remko Mooi
  • 3 Modifying Procedural Practices, Shaping Economic Identities The Middle Class and Negotiated Debt Adjustment in Commercial Courts in Belgium (1883-1914)
  •   Pieter De Reu
  • 4 Citizenship in Early Modern Amsterdam An Artisanal Identity?
  •   Marco In 't Veld and Maurits den Hollander
  • 5 The Pareres of the Governors of the Frankfurt Exchange Legal Opinions of Frankfurt Merchants in the Eighteenth Century
  •   Sonja Breustedt
  • 6 Identity, Conflict and Commercial Law Legal Strategies of Castilian Merchants in the Low Countries (Fifteenth-Sixteenth Centuries)
  •   Gijs Dreijer
  • 7 The Learning Market in Early Modern Antwerp (Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries) Circulation of Knowledge within the Context of Private Partnership Contracts
  •   Patrick Naaktgeboren
  • 8 Family, Religion, and Business Cooperation Jewish Private Partnerships in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam
  •   Manon Moerman
  • 9 "Tolerate their religion, but not their usury" Conrad Summenhart on Tolerating Jewish Bankers in an Era of Mass Expulsions
  •   Joost Possemiers
  • Index.