TY - BOOK ID - 14656279 TI - Insurance in Elizabethan England : the London Code PY - 2016 SN - 9781107112285 1107112281 9781316282670 9781107531499 1316428834 1316426882 1316426491 1316282678 1107531497 1316427277 1316427668 1316429229 1316423727 9781316427668 9781316427279 9781316429228 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Insurance law KW - History KW - History of the law KW - History of the United Kingdom and Ireland KW - anno 1500-1599 KW - Insurance KW - Law, Insurance KW - Commercial law KW - Contracts, Aleatory KW - Law and legislation KW - State supervision KW - Assurance KW - Insurance law. KW - Droit KW - Histoire KW - 1500-1599. KW - England. KW - Insurance law - England - History - 16th century UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14656279 AB - 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. ER -