How to ensure predictability in legal pluralism: merchants and their interaction in late Medieval Europe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rohmann, Gregor, editor.

Kypta, Ulla, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Legal polycentricity.

Merchants--Legal status, laws, etc--Europe.

Merchants.

Conflict of laws--Europe.

Conflict of laws.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 pages)

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

Köln: Böhlau Verlag, 2025.

Summary:

How did pre-modern merchants provide for predictability in situations of legal pluralism? What kind of practices did merchants use to make other parties act according to their expectations? In spheres of legal pluralism, different normative framings always overlapped and had to be negotiated in order to manage expectations. How did the actors in premodern trade decide on the framing they would act upon? The contributors discuss various means to cope with legal pluralism in place in Northern Europe, from trust and diplomacy to violence and normative orders. Taken together, the contributions show that merchants and their communities did not strive for a unification and harmonization of laws according to modern statehood, but for an enhancement of their particular group’s position in a pluralist normative field.

Contents:

How to Ensure Predictability in Legal Pluralism / Gregor Rohmann

The Merchant and the Ruler / Olga Kozubska

Contract Enforcement and Predictability in Long-Distance Trade / Alexandr Osipian

The Dogs of Danzig / Philipp Höhn

"German Law" or "Law of the Germans"? / Tobias Boestad

From Lex Maritima to Iura Maritima / Gijs Dreijer

Relations without Sanctions / Ulla Kypta

Reprisals Gone Wrong / Leslie Carr-Riegel

Cities as Centres of Innovation? / Matthias Berlandi

Merchants and Law in Anglo-Norman Towns in Plantagenet Ireland / Anna Maleszka

Notes on Contributors.

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ISBN:

3412533777

9783412533779