Jake Dyble
jakedyble.bsky.social
Jake Dyble
@jakedyble.bsky.social
Post-doctoral researcher in Padua 🇬🇧🇮🇹🇪🇺 Early modern commercial law, capitalism, slavery
Venice's close trading relationship with the Ottomans is often cited as evidence of commercial 'pragmatism': "Venetians first, Christians second".

But in fact, Venice was committed to a highly idealised and ideologically-charged notion of her commercial role.
‘Avanias, Every Waking Hour’: Entanglement and Othering in Ottoman-Venetian Trade Disputes | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society | Cambridge Core
‘Avanias, Every Waking Hour’: Entanglement and Othering in Ottoman-Venetian Trade Disputes
www.cambridge.org
October 21, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Reposted by Jake Dyble
🚨 New Law & History Review article alert:
@jakedyble.bsky.social Jake Dyble, "The Twentieth-Century Origins of the Medieval Lex Mercatoria Thesis"

Open Access ✅
doi.org/10.1017/S073...
The Twentieth-Century Origins of the Medieval Lex Mercatoria Thesis | Law and History Review | Cambridge Core
The Twentieth-Century Origins of the Medieval Lex Mercatoria Thesis
doi.org
June 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Reposted by Jake Dyble
Superb intellectual history/genealogy of the "lex mercatoria" by @jakedyble.bsky.social! I learned so much from this piece and you will too!
June 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
My current side project: the historically themed card game, FORTUNA. As merchants from the golden age of sail, players must trade, bluff, and avoid disaster.

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March 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM