Shared interest or mutual competition? The organization of voluntary jurisdiction in the Southern Low Countries during the late Middle Ages (1278-1433). Ghent University
Public opinion in Belgium recently began to question and criticize the relevance of its current notariate. The notary's prominent position in recording and authenticating agreements among individuals is thus at stake. Notaries nowadays are no longer considered as self-evident and, moreover, this research project argues that they have never been so throughout the course of their history. However, historiography into late medieval voluntary ...