Transnational Normativity in an Age of Estrangement. Loans and Credit in Consilia and Decisiones in the Northern and Southern Low Countries (ca. 1500-1680). KU Leuven
In the early modern period, the Low Countries performed a key role in trade and commerce on the European continent. In their ‘Golden Ages’, Antwerp and Amsterdam attracted merchants from all over Europe, and even beyond. The development of commerce and finance within this transregional reality raised new normative questions on how to deal with novel financial techniques. At the same time, public, private and ecclesiastical debtors were in a ...