A History of Business in Medieval Europe, 1200-1550

ISBN-13: 9780521499231 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 288 str.

Edwin S. Hunt; James Murray; James M. Murray

Opis

A History of Business in Medieval Europe, 1200-1550, demolishes the widely held view that the phrase "medieval business" is an oxymoron. The authors review the entire range of business in medieval western Europe, probing its Roman and Christian heritage to discover the economic and political forces that shaped the organization of agriculture, manufacturing, construction, mining, transportation, and marketing. Then they deal with the responses of businessmen to the devastating plagues, famines, and warfare that beset Europe in the late Middle Ages. Medieval businessmen's remarkable success in coping with this hostile new environment prepared the way for the economic expansion of the sixteenth century.

Recenzje

"Hunt and Murray have done a valuable service in producing this textbook...The authors are also to be commended for their ability to transform sometimes technical business jargon into well-crafted, readable prose." Speculum

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Before the Black Death: Progress and Problems: 1. Economics, culture, and geography of early medieval trade; 2; Tools of trade: business organization; 3. Traders and their tools; 4. The politics of business; 5. Business gets bigger: the super-company phenomenon; Part II. Business in the Late Middle Ages: A Harvest of Adversity: Introduction; 6. The new business environment of the Middle Ages; 7. Business responses to the new environment; 8. The fifteenth century: revolutionary results from old processes; 9. Sources of capital in the late Middle Ages; 10. A new age for business; Conclusions; Further reading.