Tra economia e diritto - Le società in accomandita nella Bologna d’antico regime (Interrelationships of Law and Economics - The Rise of Limited Partnerships in Early Modern Bologna)

From the 1940s to the 1970s, the commercial revolution of the Middle Ages was a historiographical concept with considerable traction. This article revisits the literature that brought about and engaged with that concept, with specific reference to Florence. In so doing, it draws attention to the place once held by business history in the study of Europe's takeoff. It also discusses the preliminary results of an ongoing project on limited partnerships in early modern Tuscany, which reaffirms the relevance of business history for understanding preindustrial economies but steers away from a teleological search for the origins of modern capitalism.

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Quantitative Approaches to Ottoman Fatwā Collections

Journal of Islamic Law ◽

10.53484/jil.v2.cosgel-ergene ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Boğaç A. Ergene ◽

Metin M. Coşgel

Keyword(s):

Quantitative Analysis ◽

Early Modern ◽

Legal History ◽

Law And Economics ◽

Interdisciplinary Studies ◽

Primary Sources ◽

Court Records ◽

Pluralistic Approach ◽

Islamic Legal History ◽

Previous Scholarship

In their joint essay, Metin Coşgel and Boğaç Ergene make the case for “a pluralistic approach to the study of Islamic legal history,” through the lens of law and economics and other types of quantitative analysis. Regression analysis, they suggest, provides especially useful approaches suited to interdisciplinary studies of historical events. To illustrate, the authors describe the findings of their previous scholarship on Ottoman court records, for which they coded data on court petitions and were able to arrive at generalizable conclusions about access to early modern courts. Noting the uptick in digitized primary sources in the field, they predict an increase in Islamic legal scholarship that integrates quantitative analysis.

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