Medieval usury and the commercialization of feudal bonds
Author: Hartmut Kreikebaum, Hartwig Bechte, Theodor Ellinger
Publisher: Duncker & Humblot
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9783428477852
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Money, Markets and Trade in Late Medieval Europe
Author: Lawrin Armstrong
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 669
ISBN-13: 900415633X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe volume explores late medieval market mechanisms and associated institutional, fiscal and monetary, organizational, decision-making, legal and ethical issues, as well as selected aspects of production, consumption and market integration. The essays span a variety of local, regional, and long-distance markets and networks.
The Problem of the Fetish
Author: William Pietz
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2022-11-18
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 0226821803
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA groundbreaking account of the origins and history of the idea of fetishism. In recent decades, William Pietz’s innovative history of the idea of the fetish has become a cult classic. Gathered here, for the first time, is his complete series of essays on fetishism, supplemented by three texts on Marx, blood sacrifice, and the money value of human life. Tracing the idea of the fetish from its origins in the Portuguese colonization of West Africa to its place in Enlightenment thought and beyond, Pietz reveals the violent emergence of a foundational concept for modern theories of value, belief, desire, and difference. This book cements Pietz’s legacy of engaging questions about material culture, object agency, merchant capitalism, and spiritual power, and introduces a powerful theorist to a new generation of thinkers.
Artifacts from Medieval Europe
Author: James B. Tschen-Emmons
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2015-02-10
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1610696220
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing artifacts as primary sources, this book enables students to comprehensively assess and analyze historic evidence in the context of the medieval period. This new addition to the Daily Life through Artifacts series provides not only the full benefit of a reference work with its comprehensive explanations and primary sources, but also supplies images of the objects, bringing a particular aspect of the medieval world to life. Each entry in Artifacts from Medieval Europe explains and expands upon the cultural significance of the artifact depicted. Artifacts are divided into such thematic categories as domestic life, religion, and transportation. Considered collectively, the various artifacts provide a composite look at daily life in the Middle Ages. Unlike medieval history encyclopedias that feature brief reference entries, this book uses artifacts to examine major aspects of daily life. Each artifact entry features an introduction, a description, an examination of its contextual significance, and a list of further resources. This approach trains students how to best analyze primary sources. General readers with an interest in history will also benefit from this approach to learning that enables a more complete appreciation of past events and circumstances.
Loans and Credit in Consilia and Decisiones in the Low Countries (c. 1500-1680)
Author: Wouter Druwé
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-12-09
Total Pages: 837
ISBN-13: 9004416528
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on consilia and decisiones, Wouter Druwé studies the multinormative framework on loans and credit in the Golden Ages of Antwerp and Amsterdam (c. 1500-1680). He analyzes the use of a wide variety of legal financial techniques in the Low Countries, such as money lending and the taking of interest, the constitution of annuities, cession and delegation, bearer bonds, bills of exchange, partnerships, and representation in financial affairs, as well as the consequences of monetary fluctuations. Special attention is paid to how the transregional European system of learned Roman and canon law (ius commune) was applied in daily ‘learned legal practice’. The study also deals with the prohibition against usury and with the impact of moral theology on legal debates.
The Political Economy of Nation Building
Author: Mack Ott
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-28
Total Pages: 439
ISBN-13: 1351477277
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDonor nations may advise and counsel, but the creation of a liberal nation state falls to its own people. They must create laws, exercise their liberties, provide freedom of belief and expression, and protect individual property rights. No nation becomes or remains free unless its people build, use, and defend these institutions, and protect them with understanding, vigilance, and effort. The Political Economy of Nation Building reviews the effects of political structures on the evolution and stability of liberalism in developing nations and considers the outlook for their success.Discussing the origins and applications of the modern liberal state from an explicitly Anglo- and Euro-centric view, Mack Ott addresses the origins of the rule of law and innovations that led to the rise of a market economy, separation of faith and governance, and the autonomy of finance - key components of the liberal state. He then addresses the emergence of sustained economic growth, a bridge between the liberal infrastructure and its application during the construction of a nation.Ott examines budget policy and laws, and accurate and timely economic and financial statistical reporting that assure donors that the recipient government is operating within the constraints of law. He addresses the beneficial effects of privatization of state-owned industry, examines the costs and benefits of nurturing non-governmental associations, and concludes with a review of transparent fiscal and monetary policies and the importance of non-interference in financial markets by the state.
The Aesthetics of Antichrist
Author: John Parker
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780801445194
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCrossing the divide between medieval and Renaissance theater while drawing heavily on New Testament scholarship, Patristics, and research into the apocrypha, this text proposes a wholesale rereading of pre-Shakespearean drama.
England's Jews
Author: John Tolan
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2023-04-11
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1512824003
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Rule of Law in the Real World
Author: Paul Gowder
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-02-09
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 110713689X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA pathbreaking theoretical and empirical study proposing social equality as a measure of the rule of law.
Comparative Property Law
Author: Michele Graziadei
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2017-01-27
Total Pages: 515
ISBN-13: 1785369164
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComparative Property Law provides a comprehensive treatment of property law from a comparative and global perspective. The contributors, who are leading experts in their fields, cover both classical and new subjects, including the transfer of property, the public-private divide in property law, water and forest laws, and the property rights of aboriginal peoples. This Handbook maps the structure and the dynamics of property law in the contemporary world and will be an invaluable reference for researchers working in all domains of property law.
