List of Illustrations VII
Notes on Contributors VIII
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Introduction 1
Heikki Pihlajamäki, Albrecht Cordes, Serge Dauchy and Dave De ruysscher
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Mercantile Conflict Resolution in Practice: Connecting Legal and Diplomatic Sources from Danzig c.1460–1580 7
Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz
3
Justitia in Commerciis: Public Governance and Commercial Litigation before the Great Council of Mechlin in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century 32
Alain Wijffels
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Honore et utile: The Approaches and Practice of Sixteenth-century Genoese Merchant Custom 55
Ricardo Galliano Court
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The Abandonment to the Insurers in Sixteenth-century Insurance Practice: Comparative Remarks and (A Few) Methodological Notes 87
Guido Rossi
6
Historiographical Opportunities of Notarized Partnership Agreements Recorded in the Early Modern Low Countries 119
Bram Van Hofstraeten
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How Normative were Merchant Guidebooks? Of Customs, Practices, and … Good Advice (Antwerp, Sixteenth Century) 144
Dave De ruysscher
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Sources of Commercial Law in the Dutch Republic and Kingdom 166
Boudewijn Sirks
9
Anja Amend-Traut
10
Legal, Moral-Theological, and Genuinely Economic Opinions on Questions of Trade and Economy in Fifteenth- and Early Sixteenth-century Germany 221
Eberhard Isenmann
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The Birth of Commercial Law in Early Modern Sweden: Sources and Historiography 266
Heikki Pihlajamäki
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Svea Court of Appeal Records as a Source of Commercial Law: The Founding Year of 1614 286
Mia Korpiola
13
Tracing the Speculation Bubble of 1799 in Newspapers, Court Records, and Other Sources 315
Margrit Schulte Beerbühl
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The Rise of Usages in French Commercial Law and Jurisprudence (Seventeenth–Nineteenth Centuries): Some Examples 337
Edouard Richard
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On the Origins of the French Commercial Code: Vicissitudes of the Gorneau Draft 350
Olivier Descamps
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Court Records as Sources for the History of Commercial Law: The Oberappellationsgericht Lübeck as a Commercial Court (1820–1879) 364
Peter Oestmann
Index of Names 387
Index of Places 394
Index of Subjects 398