The Growth of the Antwerp Market and the European Economy
The Growth of the Antwerp Market and the European Economy

Author: H. Van der Wee

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-06-29

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 9401538646

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The economy of Antwerp in the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries had a very special dynamism. It underwent the processes of rise, expansion, maturity and decadence with peculiar intensity. It gave an impressive stimulus to the commercial currents, maritime and contin ental, which converged on the town. It inspired the appearance and growth of new institutions and intensified changes in the social and economic structure. It was the heart of commerce, industry and agricul ture for a large area and particularly of Brabant, Flanders and Zeeland. Moreover Antwerp's economy was an important, and sometimes even the principal, artery of the whole European economy. Antwerp's dynamism was not purely irrational : numerous factors, which a detailed analysis allowed us to ascertain, forced its economic development. The first was le recitatif du cycle to use Braudel's termino logy t. This was however no mere histoire evenementielle. We closely followed the rhythm and even crises of Antwerp's economy, but all these quantitative and qualitative data allowed a comprehensive insight into the interdecennial waves. This permitted a reasonably distant view of the data which made it more possible to observe a logical dynamic. Thus it was not in the first place our purpose to present in this first part a purely documentary report of historical facts. We were rather concerned with the analysis of the factors which determined or influenced the dynamics of the Antwerp market and the economy of the Low Countries.

Merchants and Trading in the Sixteenth Century
Merchants and Trading in the Sixteenth Century

Author: Jeroen Puttevils

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1317316622

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Sixteenth-century Europe was powered by commerce. Whilst mercantile groups from many areas prospered, those from the Low Countries were particularly successful. This study, based on extensive archival research, charts the ascent of the merchants established around Antwerp.

The Sixteenth Century
The Sixteenth Century

Author: Euan K. Cameron

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0198731884

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This new volume in the Short Oxford History of Europe series looks at the sixteenth century - one of the most tumultuous and dramatic periods of social and cultural transformation in European history. Six leading experts consider this period from a variety of perspectives, including political, social, economic, religious, and intellectual history, and subject traditional explanations of all these areas to revision in light of the most modern scholarship. - ;The sixteenth century witnessed some of the most abrupt and traumatic transformations ever seen in European society and culture. Populatio.

Production and Consumption in the Low Countries, 13th-16th Centuries
Production and Consumption in the Low Countries, 13th-16th Centuries

Author: Raymond van Uytven

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-10-28

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 1040235603

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The subject of this volume is the relationship between production and consumption, considered not only as the supply and demand sides of economic life, but within the broader context of the societies of the Low Countries between the 12th and the 16th centuries. Amongst the topics covered are the reality of the so-called 'late medieval depression', comparisons between the great merchant cities of Bruges and Antwerp, and the actual importance of the trade in art and luxury goods. One group of articles then looks in detail at the cloth industry, which remained the mainstay of the region's wealth, and the effects upon it of changes in technology and in fashion, while the volume concludes with two studies specially translated from Dutch, on wine and beer consumption.

Handbook of European History 1400-1600: Late Middle Ages, Renaissance and Reformation
Handbook of European History 1400-1600: Late Middle Ages, Renaissance and Reformation

Author: Thomas Brady

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-11-12

Total Pages: 735

ISBN-13: 9004391657

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The Handbook of European History 1400-1600 brings together the best scholarship into an array of topical chapters that present current knowledge and thinking in ways useful to the specialist and accessible to students and to the educated non-specialist. Forty-one leading scholars in this field of history present the state of knowledge about the grand themes, main controversies and fruitful directions for research of European history in this era. Volume 1 (Structures and Assertions) described the people, lands, religions and political structures which define the setting for this historical period. Volume 2 (Visions, Programs, Outcomes) covers the early stages of the process by which newly established confessional structures began to work their way among the populace.

Private Money and Public Currencies: The Sixteenth Century Challenge
Private Money and Public Currencies: The Sixteenth Century Challenge

Author: M-.T.Boyer- Xambeau

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-07-01

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1315491044

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First Published in 1994. Writing as a unified team, the authors, three French economists—they insist they are economists, not economic historians, though they are steeped in the monetary, financial, economic, social, and political history of Europe in the sixteenth century—have written a fascinating account of the development of means of payment at the end of the Renaissance and the beginning of the modern period. The account is limited for the most part to what they call “Latin Christianity”—primarily France, Italy, and Spain. It describes both the development of an integrated circuit of intra-European payments by means of bills of exchange negotiated at trade and payment fairs and the emergence of national systems of money of account and metallic coins at the hands of the monarchs of the emerging state system.