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Propter Conversationem Diversarum Gentium: Migrating Words and Merchants in Medieval Pisa (2019)

Stefania Gialdroni (Author)

Brill
Pages: 28-53
Publication date: 2019
Language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004416642_004

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Language Diffusion of innovation; diffusion of knowledge; diffusion of technology Merchants Pisa (Italy)

The Republic of Pisa was an international economic power as early as the 11th century. Its prosperity led to the early development of typical communal institutions (consules) as well as to the drafting of the most ancient and exhaustive examples of written ius proprium that have survived until today: the Constitutum Legis (CL) and the Constitutum Usus (CU). The latter included a list of city customs, with particular reference to feudal, commercial and maritime law. At the time of Pisa’s supremacy, i.e. until the second half of the 13th century, merchants from the Republic could be found all across the Mediterranean. Pisa itself too was a melting pot of different ethnicities and cultures, so much so that was described as a new ‘Babel’ by the monk Donizo of Canossa. This paper aims at analyzing the law and language used for commenda-like contracts by the merchants of Pisa in order to verify possible foreign influences. The very foreword of the CU, in fact, states that Pisa ‘earned’ its own customs (suas consuetudines non scriptas habere meruit) thanks to the ‘dialogue’ with people coming from different parts of the world (propter conversationem diversarum gentium).

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