History

Every prospective lawyer in Germany today learns in the first semester how to write an expert opinion on an undisputed matter for the resolving of civil law cases. Marc Matthias Wendt's legal-historical investigation traces the question of who contributed - when, what, how and why - to this globally unique method of case resolution. His study's findings are as surprising as they are conclusive.

This volume contains three sources and studies drawn from the late medieval records of the Benedictine convent of Lüne near Lüneburg - the edition of the statute book with the rites of admission to the monastic community, the diary of the prioress Mechthild Wilde about her own election, and a study on the networks of the Lüne provosts, especially with regard to their acquisition of benefices.

Through a new reading of little-noticed sources, Michael Sommer develops an addendum to previous sociohistorical works on widows in early Christianity.

The monetary and economic reform of June 1948 is considered the birth of the social market economy in Germany. Melvin John examines the history of ideas that led to the liberalisation of consumer goods prices at that time, probing in particular the theoretical works of Ludwig Erhard.