Wednesday, 5 October 2022
14.00–14.30h
Peter Oestmann (Münster): Welcome
Gregor Rohmann (Frankfurt): Introduction
Session 1: Merchants and Markets in Central Europe
Chair: Leslie Carr-Riegel (Budapest/Münster)
14.30–15.15h
Katalin Szende (Budapest): Trust and Distrust in the Legal Framework of Urban Life in Late Medieval Hungary
15.15–16.00h
Olga Kozubska (Lviv/Münster): Trading Privileges and Legal Pluralism in Ukrainian Towns
16.00–16.30h Coffee break
Session 2: Scandinavia and the North
Chair: Vera Teske (Münster)
16.30–17.15h
Tobias Boestad (La Rochelle): German Law or Law of the Germans? Some Notes about the Early Hanse Merchants and their Attitude towards Legal „Harmonization“ in Northern Europe
17.15–18.00h
Louis Sicking (Amsterdam/Leiden): A Microcosm of the Hanse? Legal Pluralism at Scania, 1350–1550
18.00–18.45h
Edda Frankot (Bodø): Administering Justice to Foreigners: International Merchants and Mariners before the Late Medieval Aberdeen Courts
19.30h Dinner
Thursday, 06 October 2022
Session 3: Hanse Towns and Hanse Merchants
Chair: Sophia Mösch (Münster)
09.00–09.45h
Ulla Kypta (Hamburg): Bridging Social Capital: Predictability as the Basis of Cooperation between Late Medieval Merchants
09.45–10.30h
Philipp Höhn (Halle): Legal Commonalities in Legal Pluralism. Communicating Conflict and Cohesion in Hanse Towns
10.30–11.00h Coffee break
11.00–11.45h
Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz (Amsterdam): The Trouble with Legal Pluralism: a Danzig Case
Session 4: The Hanse in the West
Chair: Quentin Verreycken (Louvain)
11.45–12.30h
Bart Lambert/Juuriaan Wink (Brussels): Legal Pluralism and the Hanseatic Zuiderzee Towns: Conflict Management in a Multilayered Legal Landscape between North and Baltic Seas
12.30–14.00h Lunch break
14.00–14.45h
Indravati Félicité (La Réunion): Considerations of Legal Unity and Pluralism in Early Modern Hanse Diplomacy
14.45–15.00h
Peter Oestmann (Münster): Commentary
15.00–15.30h Final discussion