"The chapters in this volume grew out of the first conference devoted solely to the trade of paper. The speakers and … networks of the paper trade. Altogether, the collection uncovers the actors involved in the networks of paper production …-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), and the conference posters were printed on beautiful sheets of handmade paper bearing watermarks, produced …

For a very long time, the areas available for continuous long-distance trade were limited to territories the size of … Hanseatic League, the Florentine Companies), their trade was not able to directly handle branches more than a month's sailing … of the main European powers of the time against one another. This paper intents to provide answers to two questions: what …

merchants and agents were law-based. This paper refutes this assertion using quantitative and documentary evidence thereby … vindicating the position that the legal system had a marginal role in mitigating agency problems in long-distance trade in this … historical era.** Edwards and Ogilvie constantly present legal actions in non-trade related legal cases as evidence for a …