Preface -- Introduction -- Before bankruptcy : conflict solution strategies of upper German / Mechthild Isenmann -- Trading companies in the fifteenth and "long" sixteenth centuries / Wolfgang Forster -- Failed memoria : rights of patronage and of burial in bankruptcy / Dave De ruysscher -- The...

This Forum aims to systematically describe and analyse the evolution of national financial systems within the EU over the past three decades. It analyses the processes of financialisation that have dominated this period as well as the causes and consequences of the financial crisis from the...