How to Ensure Predictability in Legal Pluralism

Merchants and their Interaction in Late Medieval Europe

300 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Einheit und Vielfalt im Recht / Legal Unity and Pluralism
• Themen: Recht Rechtswissenschaft, allgemein Rechtsgeschichte
• ISBN: 9783412533762
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 10.11.2025
• Größe: 23.5 x 16 cm
• Verlag: Böhlau Köln
• Reihe herausgegeben von: Ulrike Ludwig
• Herausgegeben von: Gregor Rohmann
• Reihe herausgegeben von: Gregor Rohmann, Ulla Kypta, Matthias Berlandi, Alexandr Osipian, Leslie Carr-Riegel, Olga Kozubska, Tobias Boestad, Gijs Dreijer, Anna Maleszka, Philipp Höhn, Ulla Kypta, Peter Oestmann