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Author: Michael Moïssey Postan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1973-06-21
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780521522021
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of Professor Postan's major essays on medieval trade and finance.
Author: Pamela Nightingale
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-05-31
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1000949907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe sixteen articles in this collection analyse the contribution made by overseas trade, and the wealth in coin which it created, to the development of the English economy and locate this in an European-wide setting. In time, they range from the late Anglo-Saxon period up to the advent of the Tudors. The papers include general surveys of the importance of coinage and credit in the rise and decline of a market economy, and of the way that credit functioned in a society that lacked reliable supplies of bullion and which was also subject to the scourges of warfare and devastating disease. They illustrate, too, how from the tenth century the English crown used its control and exploitation of the coinage as part of a sophisticated fiscal system which helped create the precocious power of the English state. The author further shows how the wool trade altered the geographical pattern of wealth and enriched peasants, landowners and merchants, while the competing interests involved in the trade also cause political conflicts in Parliament and in the government of London during the period when London was establishing itself as the political capital and the financial centre of the kingdom.
Author: Robert Sabatino Lopez
Publisher:
Published: 1955
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9780231096263
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: M. M. Postan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-08-22
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780521522021
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProfessor Postan's work on the social and economic history of the Middle Ages has had an enormous influence upon the study of medieval history and upon the development of the subject. His essays represent his major contribution and are a unique and valuable addition to the literature. Twenty-two essays are gathered together into two volumes: Essays on Medieval Agriculture and General Problems of the Medieval Economy and Medieval Trade and Finance. Previously published elsewhere, frequently in obscure places, over a period from 1928 to 1972, they are still used today by students and scholars in all branches of medieval and economic history as well as by social scientists and economists more generally.
Author: Angela Ling Huang
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2014-06-30
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1782976477
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArchaeologists and textile historians bring together 16 papers to investigate the production, trade and consumption of textiles in Scandinavia and across parts of northern and Mediterranean Europe throughout the medieval period. Archaeological evidence is used to demonstrate the existence or otherwise of international trade and to examine the physical characteristics of textiles and their distribution in order to understand who was producing, using and trading them and what they were being used for. Historical evidence, mainly textual, is employed to link textile names to places, numbers and prices and thus provide an appreciation of changing economics, patterns of distribution and the organisation of trade. Different types and qualities of cloths are discussed and the social implications of their production and import/export considered against a developing background of urbanism and increasing commercial wealth.
Author: Pavla Slavíčková
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780429356018
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This is the first comprehensive study of loans and debts in Central European countries in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. It outlines the issues of debts and loans in the Czech lands, Poland and Hungary, with respect to the influence of Austria and Germany. It focuses on the role of loans and debts in medieval and early modern society, credit markets in these countries, the mechanism of lending and borrowing, forms of credit, availability of loans, frequency of credits dealings, range of lending business, and last, but not least, the financial relationships inside the social classes and between them. The research presented in the book is based on a wide range of resources including credit contracts and agreements, evidence of loans and debts of courts, accounting of nobility, towns, church and guilds, merchant diaries and Jewish registers, as well as other financial records. It covers a wide range of historical disciplines including economic and financial history, social history, the history of economic thought as well as the history of everyday life. It also contains a wealth of case studies, which offer, for the first time in English, a comprehensive and representative sample of the most up-to-date Central European research on the history of loans and debts and serves as a basis for a comparison with the other parts of Europe during the same period. The book is designed primarily for postgraduates, researchers and academics in financial, economic and historical sciences but will also be a valuable resource for students of business schools"--
Author: M. M. Postan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-10-30
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780521088466
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes The economic foundations of medieval society, The rise of a money economy, The chronology of labour services and The charters of the villeins.
Author: Shelomo Dov Goitein
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 949
ISBN-13: 9004154728
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe annotated and translated letters of 11th-12th century traders of the Jewish Indian Ocean, found in the Cairo Geniza, provide fascinating information on commerce between the Far East, Yemen and the Mediterranean, medieval material, social, and spiritual civilization among Jews and Arabs, and Judeo-Arabic.
Author: Diana Wood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-10-17
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780521458931
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is an introduction to medieval economic thought, mainly from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, as it emerges from the works of academic theologians and lawyers and other sources - from Italian merchants' writings to vernacular poetry, Parliamentary legislation, and manorial court rolls. It raises a number of questions based on the Aristotelian idea of the mean, the balance and harmony underlying justice, as applied by medieval thinkers to the changing economy. How could private ownership of property be reconciled with God's gift of the earth to all in common? How could charity balance resources between rich and poor? What was money? What were the just price and the just wage? How was a balance to be achieved between lender and borrower and how did the idea of usury change to reflect this? The answers emerge from a wide variety of ecclesiastical and secular sources.
Author: Georg Christ
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2012-01-20
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9004221999
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on Mamluk and Venetian sources, this book offers a thorough analysis of the various conflicts arising around Levant trade. It demonstrates how these conflicts more often than not cut across cultural divides in Late Medieval Mamluk Alexandria.
