Albrecht Cordes is professor for medieval and early modern legal history and for private law at the Goethe-University Frankfurt a. M. He has specialized in pre-modern history of commercial law and on the legal history of the Hanseatic league.Margrit Schulte Beerbühl is professor in history at the university of Düsseldorf. She has specialized on migration from Germany to Britain and early modern transnational merchant networks.

«Jeder einzelne Beitrag ist faszinierend zu lesen und bietet einen profunden Einblick in die jeweilige Epoche in den verschiedenen Ländern bzw. Städten. In dieser Hinsicht ist das Werk ein wertvoller Beitrag zur Konkursgeschichte.»(Dieter Stiefel, VSWG 3/2017)

• Contents: Mechthild Isenmann: Before Bankruptcy: Conflict Solution Strategies of Upper German Trading Companies in the Fifteenth and «Long» Sixteenth Centuries – Wolfgang Forster: Failed Memoria: Rights of Patronage and of Burial in Bankruptcy – Dave De ruysscher: The Struggle for Voluntary Bankruptcy and Debt Adjustment in Antwerp (c. 1520-c. 1550) – Klas Nyberg/Håkan Jakobsson: Negotiations, credit and trust in Northern Europe: institutional efficiency in the handling of bankruptcies in late eighteenth-century Stockholm – Magnus Ressel: Norms and Practice of Handling Complex and International Insolvencies in Early Modern Venice – Viera Rebolledo-Dhuin: Below and Beyond Bankruptcy: Credit in the Parisian Book Trade in the Nineteenth-Century – Erika Vause: The Ties that Bind?: An Analysis of the Debt Imprisonment Records in Lyon 1835-1840 – Jasper Kunstreich: Bankruptcy Laws as Standortpolitik - the Case of Hamburg 1850 to 1870 – Ulrich Falk/Christoph Kling: The Regulatory Concept of Compulsory Composition in the German Bankruptcy Act – Peter von Wilmowsky: Insolvency Law: Its Roles and Principles.

Albrecht Cordes is professor for medieval and early modern legal history and for private law at the Goethe-University Frankfurt a. M. He has specialized in pre-modern history of commercial law and on the legal history of the Hanseatic league.Margrit Schulte Beerbühl is professor in history at the university of Düsseldorf. She has specialized on migration from Germany to Britain and early modern transnational merchant networks.

«Jeder einzelne Beitrag ist faszinierend zu lesen und bietet einen profunden Einblick in die jeweilige Epoche in den verschiedenen Ländern bzw. Städten. In dieser Hinsicht ist das Werk ein wertvoller Beitrag zur Konkursgeschichte.»(Dieter Stiefel, VSWG 3/2017)

• Contents: Mechthild Isenmann: Before Bankruptcy: Conflict Solution Strategies of Upper German Trading Companies in the Fifteenth and «Long» Sixteenth Centuries – Wolfgang Forster: Failed Memoria: Rights of Patronage and of Burial in Bankruptcy – Dave De ruysscher: The Struggle for Voluntary Bankruptcy and Debt Adjustment in Antwerp (c. 1520-c. 1550) – Klas Nyberg/Håkan Jakobsson: Negotiations, credit and trust in Northern Europe: institutional efficiency in the handling of bankruptcies in late eighteenth-century Stockholm – Magnus Ressel: Norms and Practice of Handling Complex and International Insolvencies in Early Modern Venice – Viera Rebolledo-Dhuin: Below and Beyond Bankruptcy: Credit in the Parisian Book Trade in the Nineteenth-Century – Erika Vause: The Ties that Bind?: An Analysis of the Debt Imprisonment Records in Lyon 1835-1840 – Jasper Kunstreich: Bankruptcy Laws as Standortpolitik - the Case of Hamburg 1850 to 1870 – Ulrich Falk/Christoph Kling: The Regulatory Concept of Compulsory Composition in the German Bankruptcy Act – Peter von Wilmowsky: Insolvency Law: Its Roles and Principles.

Albrecht Cordes is professor for medieval and early modern legal history and for private law at the Goethe-University Frankfurt a. M. He has specialized in pre-modern history of commercial law and on the legal history of the Hanseatic league.Margrit Schulte Beerbühl is professor in history at the university of Düsseldorf. She has specialized on migration from Germany to Britain and early modern transnational merchant networks.

«Jeder einzelne Beitrag ist faszinierend zu lesen und bietet einen profunden Einblick in die jeweilige Epoche in den verschiedenen Ländern bzw. Städten. In dieser Hinsicht ist das Werk ein wertvoller Beitrag zur Konkursgeschichte.»(Dieter Stiefel, VSWG 3/2017)

• Contents: Mechthild Isenmann: Before Bankruptcy: Conflict Solution Strategies of Upper German Trading Companies in the Fifteenth and «Long» Sixteenth Centuries – Wolfgang Forster: Failed Memoria: Rights of Patronage and of Burial in Bankruptcy – Dave De ruysscher: The Struggle for Voluntary Bankruptcy and Debt Adjustment in Antwerp (c. 1520-c. 1550) – Klas Nyberg/Håkan Jakobsson: Negotiations, credit and trust in Northern Europe: institutional efficiency in the handling of bankruptcies in late eighteenth-century Stockholm – Magnus Ressel: Norms and Practice of Handling Complex and International Insolvencies in Early Modern Venice – Viera Rebolledo-Dhuin: Below and Beyond Bankruptcy: Credit in the Parisian Book Trade in the Nineteenth-Century – Erika Vause: The Ties that Bind?: An Analysis of the Debt Imprisonment Records in Lyon 1835-1840 – Jasper Kunstreich: Bankruptcy Laws as Standortpolitik - the Case of Hamburg 1850 to 1870 – Ulrich Falk/Christoph Kling: The Regulatory Concept of Compulsory Composition in the German Bankruptcy Act – Peter von Wilmowsky: Insolvency Law: Its Roles and Principles.