IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 1024: Crossing Urban Legal Boundaries in Northern Europe, I: Belonging and Otherness
Wednesday 7 July 2021, 09.00-10.30
| Organisers: | Edda Frankot, Research Institute of Irish & Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen Miriam Tveit, Fakultetet for Samfunnsvitenskap, Nord universitet |
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| Moderator/Chair: | David Ditchburn, Department of History, Trinity College Dublin |
| Paper 1024-a | Belonging and Exclusion: Hanseatic Kontore Dealing with Mercantile Legal Conflicts in London and Bruges, c. 1380-1500 (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Trade, Economics - Urban, Law |
| Paper 1024-b | The Legal Position of Burghers and Guests in Stockholm (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Economics - Urban, Law |
| Paper 1024-c | 'Considerand that he is a stranger': Foreigners and the Law in Late Medieval Aberdeen (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Law, Social History |
| Abstract | Medieval towns were generally legally separate entities from the area around them. Their citizens, moreover, had been granted specific rights and privileges which distinguished them from others. Such rights and privileges particularly concerned separate jurisdictions as well as access to trade. The same can be said of the privileges granted to groups of merchants, such as those from the Hanse. This session will explore the legal boundaries that existed between town-dwellers (or members of Hanseatic kontors) and others, be they inhabitants from the surrounding countryside or citizens from other towns, to establish how and whether such boundaries were created and maintained. |