How to Ensure Predictability in Legal Pluralism: Merchants and their Interaction in Late Medieval Europe (Einheit und Vielfalt im Recht / Legal Unity and Pluralism) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3412533769 ISBN 13: 9783412533762

Publisher: Brill Deutschland GmbH, 2025

Synopsis

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.

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About the Authors

Gregor Rohmann ist Professor für Regionale Kulturgeschichte Mecklenburgs an der Universität Rostock.

Ulla Kypta arbeitet als Juniorprofessorin für die Geschichte des Späten Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit an der Universität Hamburg.

Matthias Berlandi is a postdoctoral research assistant at the Georg August University Göttingen.

Ulrike Ludwig Professorin für die Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit an der Universität Münster und Ko-Direktorin des Käte Hamburger-Kollegs „Einheit und Vielfalt im Recht“.

Peter Oestmann ist Professor für Bürgerliches Recht und Deutsche Rechtsgeschichte am Institut für Rechtsgeschichte der Universität Münster.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill Deutschland GmbH
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3412533769
• ISBN 13: 9783412533762
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1
• Editor: Prof. Dr. Gregor Rohmann