This collection of essays, as Luisa Brunori’s introduction explains, explores the legal landscape of merchant institutions from the medieval to the modern periods. The book, which is the third component of the PHEDRA project (‘Pour une Histoire Européenne du DRoit des Affaires’), originates from a colloquium held in Lille (France) in November 2021. A central thesis of the project is that commercial law is inherently supra-national and supra-legal. Commercial law, the volume argues, cannot be understood through analysing national systems alone, nor by merely comparing those systems. Instead, one must look to transnational merchant networks, such as Hanses, nations, trading posts, and factors, to study how business norms influenced and were influenced by formal commercial law.
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