Migrating Words, Migrating Merchants, Migrating Law
Subtitle: Trading Routes and the Development of Commercial Law
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9789004415836
Subjects: Commercial law
Description: "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 Pihlajama ki, 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, Lu beck, 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 Ha berlein, Uwe Israel, Bart Lambert, David von Mayenburg, Hanna Sonkaja rvi, and Catherine Squires"--