Présentation de l'éditeur
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.
Sommaire
Introduction
By: Albrecht Cordes and Stefania Gialdroni
Mediterranean Networks
Migrating Words and Migrating Custom among the Geniza Merchants: Maimonides on Commercial Agency Law
By: Mark R. Cohen
Propter Conversationem Diversarum Gentium: Migrating Words and Merchants in Medieval Pisa
By: Stefania Gialdroni
‘Migrating Seamen, Migrating Laws’?
An Historiographical Genealogy of Seamen’s Employment and States’ Jurisdiction in the Early Modern Mediterranean
By: Maria Fusaro
Lingua Franca and Migrations
By: Guido Cifoletti
European Networks
Brokers as German-Italian Cultural Mediators in Renaissance Venice
By: Uwe Israel
German-East Slavic (Language) Contacts in Legal Texts of the Thirteenth-Fifteenth Centuries
By: Catherine Squires
The Language of the Law: The Lübeck Law Codes (ca. 1224–1642)
By: Albrecht Cordes
A Legal World Market? The Exchange of Commercial Law in Fifteenth-Century Bruges
By: Bart Lambert
Wörter für Wucher: Ius commune and the Sixteenth Century Debate on the Legitimacy of South German Trading Houses
By: David von Mayenburg
Transfer of Credit, Mercantile Mobility, and Language among Jewish Merchants in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Central and East Central Europe
By: Cornelia Aust
Atlantic Networks
Coming to Terms with the Atlantic World: German Merchants, Language, and English Legal Culture in the Early Modern Period
By: Mark Häberlein
Laws – Customs – Conventions: French Merchants and French Legal Doctrines in the Brazilian Law Courts in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
By: Hanna Sonkajärvi
