How to Ensure Predictability in Legal Pluralism: Merchants and Their Interaction in Late Medieval Europe (Einheit & Vielfalt Im Recht / Legal Unity & Pluralism, 5)

ISBN 10: 3412533769 / ISBN 13: 9783412533762

Published by Bohlau Verlag Koln, 2025

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How to Ensure Predictability in Legal Pluralism: Merchants and Their Interaction in Late Medieval Europe (Einheit & Vielfalt Im Recht / Legal Unity & Pluralism, 5)
• Publisher: Bohlau Verlag Koln
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3412533769
• ISBN 13: 9783412533762
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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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.