Includes papers from the "Workshop Identity, Citizenship and Commerce" held at Vrije Universiteit Brussels on 7 November 2019. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- The Bannum in Florentine Bankruptcy Law (fourteenth-fifteenth centuries) / Marta Lupi -- "Without regard to foreignness". The reciprocal equal treatment of foreign creditors in the early modern German territories / Remko Mooi -- Modifying procedural practices, shaping economic identities the middle class and negotiated debt adjustment in commercial courts in Belgium (1883-1914) / Pieter De Reu -- Citizenship in early modern Amsterdam : an Artisanal Identity? / Marco In 't Veld and Maurits den Hollander -- The Pareres of the governors of the Frankfurt exchange legal opinions of Frankfurt merchants in the eighteenth century / Sonja Breustedt -- Identity, conflict and commercial law legal strategies of Castilian merchants in the low countries (fifteenth-sixteenth centuries) / Gijs Dreijer -- The learning market in early modern Antwerp (seventeenth-eighteenth centuries) circulation of knowledge within the context of private partnership contracts / Patrick Naaktgeboren -- Family, religion, and business cooperation Jewish private partnerships in eighteenth-century Amsterdam / Manon Moerman -- 'Tolerate their religion, but not their usury' : Conrad Summenhart on tolerating Jewish bankers in an era of mass expulsions / Joost Possemiers.
Summary:
"Citizenship is a concept that has changed and evolved through the ages. Our modern idea of citizenship as an individual status that implies a generalized ownership of civil, political and social rights is the end point of a long evolution. Bourgeois demands for individual freedoms towards the State brought about the dismantling and dissolution of the structure of feudal society, which was grounded on a community concept of citizenship. The new citizenship was equal for all the inhabitants of a community, whether it was a city, a nation, a state, or a country"--Provided by publisher.
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