Today our attention is focused on how to analyse #conflictmanagement from an interdisciplinary approach, due to our broad variety of source material. In particular: law and its role in diplomatic/economic centered conflicts. As Alain Wijffels points out – 1/5

while discussing Anglo-Hanseatic commercial conflicts, law was not on the forefront of these relations. The main focus was on diplomacy & trade. But legal documents can add valuable insight, esp. when scholars look beyond conflict resolution and analyse the conflict process 2/5

“Law may not have been seen as offering a way out of the conflict, in the sense of a form of dispute resolution but it did contribute by formalising the controversial issues and subjecting them to legal arguments supported by legal authorities, 3/5

to secure some form of conflict management.” (p.172) Wijffels chapter is this week's #RetroConflictsInspiration since legal institutions/actors involved in Hanse-related conflicts will be used to e.g. demonstrate law as a tactic or how Hanseatic legal authority was perceived 4/5

A. Wijffels, “Legal authorities as instruments of conflict management. The long endgame of Anglo-Hanseatic relations (1474-1603)”, Godfrey, M. (Ed.) Law and Authority in British Legal History, @CambridgeUP (2016), pp.170-191 https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/law-and-authority-in-british-legal-history-12001900/35567E4E1AA8EF4C477AB793ED05E3F2 5/5