| Insurance in Elizabethan England: The London Code Contributor(s): Rossi, Guido (Author) |
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ISBN: 1107112281 ISBN-13: 9781107112285 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $182.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Legal History - Law | Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice |
| Dewey: 346.420 |
| LCCN: 2015017919 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in English Legal History |
| Physical Information: 1.88" H x 6" W x 9" (3.00 lbs) 900 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: English insurance came into being almost entirely during the Elizabethan period. However, the Great Fire of 1666 consumed most of London's mercantile document, and therefore little is known about early English insurance. Using new archival material, this study provides the first in-depth analysis of early English insurance. It focuses on a crucial yet little-known text, the London Insurance Code of the early 1580s, and shows how London insurance customs were first imported from Italy, then influenced by the Dutch, and finally shaped in a systematic fashion in that Insurance Code. The London Insurance Code was in turn heavily influenced by coeval continental codes. This deep influence attests the strong links between English and European insurance, and questions the common/civil law divide on the history of commercial law. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rossi, Guido: - Guido Rossi is a lecturer in European legal history at the University of Edinburgh. |