Dealing with economic failure : between norm and practice (15th to 21st century)

Preface -- Introduction -- Before bankruptcy : conflict solution strategies of upper German / Mechthild Isenmann -- Trading companies in the fifteenth and "long" sixteenth centuries / Wolfgang Forster -- Failed memoria : rights of patronage and of burial in bankruptcy / Dave De ruysscher -- The struggle for voluntary bankruptcy and debt adjustment in Antwerp (c. 1520-1550) / Klas Nyberg & HÃ-kan Jakobsson -- Negotiations, credit and trust in northern Europe : institutional efficiency in the handling of bankruptcies in late eighteenth-century Stockholm / Magnus Ressel -- Norms and practice of handling complex and international insolvencies in early modern Venice / Viera Rebolledo-Dhuin -- Below and beyond bankruptcy : credit in the parisian book trade in the nineteenth-century / Erika Vause -- The ties that bind? : an analysis of the debt imprisonment -- Records in Lyon 1835-1840 / Jasper Kunstreich -- Bankruptcy laws as standortpolitik : the case of Hamburg 1850 to 1870 / Ulrich Falk & Christoph Kling -- The regulatory concept of compulsory composition in the German Bankruptcy Act / Peter von Wilmowsky -- Insolvency law : its roles and principles -- Contributors -- Register