Companies and Company Law in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

This book collects the proceedings of a workshop on the late medieval

and early modern history of companies and company law in Europe which

was organized in 2012 by the Louvain research unit of Roman Law and

Legal History. In total, seven original and innovative articles

resulted from the fruitful confrontation of a younger generation’s work

and the critical scrutiny of some viri sapientes in the field of

research at hand. Two of the articles focus on the history of so-called

state-regulated companies in England and France, while four address

various aspects of general private partnerships and early modern

corporate practices as could be observed in the Southern and Northern

Netherlands during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. All of the

articles are based on original research efforts and present a variety of

new insights on the topic at hand.