Transalpine Conflict Resolution Between Arbitration and Reprisals : the Haidens of Vienna vs. Bologna, 1438–1498
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Studia historica Brunensia |
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| web | https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/digilib.80890 |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/SHB2024-2-10 |
| Keywords | conflict; arbitration; reprisals; trade; diplomacy; law; Hungary; Austria; Italy; Vienna; Bologna; the Haidens; late Middle Ages |
| Description | This case study examines the protracted dispute over confiscated property between the prominent merchant Henry Haiden of Vienna and his heirs on the one side and the city of Bologna and one of its citizens, Ercole Fantuzzi, on the other, which unfolded between 1438 and 1498. Thanks to the wealth of as yet unpublished sources stored in the Bologna archives, it is possible to reconstruct the individual phases of the 60-year conflict in considerable detail, to analyse the strategies pursued by the parties involved, and to identify the various legal instruments employed to obtain justice. On a broader level, this paper shows the possibilities and limits of transalpine dispute resolution in the late Middle Ages, which was necessarily conditioned by the interplay between trade and diplomacy, law and politics. |
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