Author : Michael Moïssey Postan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,97 MB
Release : 1973-06-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521522021
A collection of Professor Postan's major essays on medieval trade and finance.
Author : Pamela Nightingale
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 28,78 MB
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1000949907
The 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 :
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 20,74 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Commerce
ISBN : 9780231096263
Author : M. M. Postan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,97 MB
Release : 2002-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521522021
Professor 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 : M. M. Postan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 32,75 MB
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521088466
Includes The economic foundations of medieval society, The rise of a money economy, The chronology of labour services and The charters of the villeins.
Author : Angela Ling Huang
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 10,11 MB
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1782976477
Archaeologists 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 : Shelomo Dov Goitein
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 949 pages
File Size : 24,45 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9004154728
The 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
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,52 MB
Release : 2002-10-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521458931
This 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 : Martin Allen
Publisher : University of London Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,88 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781909646162
This volume contains selected essays in celebration of the scholarship of the medieval historian Professor James L. Bolton. The essays address a number of different questions in medieval economic and social history, as the volume looks at the activities of merchants, their trade, legal interactions and identities, and on the importance of money and credit in the rural and urban economies. Other essays look more widely at patterns of immigration to London, trade and royal policy, and the role that merchants played in the Hundred Years War.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 47,47 MB
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9004363904
The Economy of Medieval Hungary is the first concise, English-language volume about the economic life of medieval Hungary. It is a product of the cooperation of specialists representing various disciplines of medieval studies, including archaeologists, archaeozoologists, specialists in medieval demography, historical hydrologists, climate and environmental historians, as well as archivists and church historians. The twenty-five chapters of the book focus on structures of medieval economy, different means and ways of human-nature interactions in production, and offer an overview of the different spheres of economic life, with a particular emphasis on taxation, income and commercial activity. Thanks to its interdisciplinary character, this volume is a basic handbook for the history of economy, production and material culture. Contributors are Krisztina Arany, László Bartosiewicz, Zoltán Batizi, Anna Zsófia Biller, Péter Csippán, László Daróczi-Szabó, Márta Daróczi-Szabó, István Draskóczy, István Feld, László Ferenczi, Erika Gál, Márton Gyöngyössy, István Kenyeres, István Kováts, András Kubinyi, Kyra Lyublyanovics, Árpád Nógrády, Éva Ágnes Nyerges, István Petrovics, Zsolt Pinke, Beatrix F. Romhányi, Katalin Szende, László Szende, Magdolna Szilágyi, Csaba Tóth, and Boglárka Weisz.
