How the nation of Portuguese merchants in Antwerp “made” its privileged customary law (xvi-xviii c.)
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19 juillet 2024
- doi: 10.4000/122ci
- isbn: 978-2-36170-249-6
- eisbn: 978-2-37928-126-6
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Georges Martyn, « How the nation of Portuguese merchants in Antwerp “made” its privileged customary law (xvi-xviii c.) », Presses de l’Université Toulouse Capitole, ID : 10.4000/122ci
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I. IntroductionCommercial relations between the Low Countries, particularly the county of Flanders, and Portugal have been attested since the Portuguese Kingdom was founded in the twelfth century. Just as a Flemish nation of merchants settled in Lisbon, a group of Portuguese salesmen lived in the Low Countries, first in Bruges and later in Antwerp. They called themselves a nation and were well organized, electing new consuls every year. The competences of the consulates of various nations of...