Corporate Medievalism

Author : Karl Fugelso
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781843843221

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Corporate Medievalism by Karl Fugelso Pdf

Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the middle ages, with a particular focus on its relationship with business and finance. Academia has never been immune to corporate culture, and despite the persistent association of medievalism with escapism, perhaps never has that been more obvious than at the present moment. The six essays that open the volume explore precisely how financial institutions have promoted, distorted, appropriated, resisted, and repudiated post-medieval interpretations of the middle ages. In the second part of the book, contributors explore medievalism in a variety of areas, juxtaposing specific case studies with broader investigations of the discipline's motives and methods; they include Charles Kingsley's racial Anglo-Saxonism, Jessie L. Weston's Sir Gawain and the treatment of womenin medievalist film. The book also includes a spirited response to previous Studies in Medievalism volumes on the topic neomedievalism. Contributors: Harry Brown, Henrik Aubert, Helen Brookman, Pamela Clements, KellyAnnFitzpatrick, Jil Hanifan, Michael R. Kightley, Felice Lifshitz, Lauren S. Mayer, Brent Moberley, Kevin Moberley, E. L. Risden, Carol L. Robinson, M. J. Toswell, J. Rubén Valdés Miyares

Author : Karl Fugelso
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843843559

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Corporate Medievalism II by Karl Fugelso Pdf

In the wake of the many passionate responses to its predecessor, Studies in Medievalism 22 also addresses the role of corporations in medievalism. Amid the three opening essays, Amy S. Kaufman examines how three modern novelists have refracted contemporary corporate culture through an imagined and highly dystopic Middle Ages. On either side of that paper, Elizabeth Emery and Richard Utz explore how the Woolworth Company and Google have variously promoted, distorted, appropriated, resisted, and repudiated post-medieval interpretations of the Middle Ages. And Clare Simmons expands on that approach in a full-length article on the Lord Mayor's Show in London. Readers are then invited to find other permutations of corporate influence in six articles on the gendering of Percy's Reliques, the Romantic Pre-Reformation in Charles Reade's The Cloister and the Hearth, renovation and resurrection in M.R. James's "Episode of Cathedral History", salvation in the Commedia references of Rodin's Gates of Hell, film theory and the relationship of the Sister Arts to the cinematic Beowulf, and American containment culture in medievalist comic-books. While offering close, thorough studies of traditional media and materials, the volume directly engages timely concerns about the motives and methods behind this field and many others in academia. Karl Fugelso is Professor of Art History at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland. Contributors: Aida Audeh, Elizabeth Emery, Katie Garner, Nickolas Haydock, Amy S. Kaufman, Peter W. Lee, Patrick J. Murphy, Fred Porcheddu, Clare A. Simmons, Mark B. Spencer, Richard Utz.

Author : Edwin S. Hunt,James M. Murray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1999-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521499232

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A History of Business in Medieval Europe, 1200-1550 by Edwin S. Hunt,James M. Murray Pdf

This book reviews business in medieval western Europe, probing its Roman and Christian heritage to discover the economic and political forces that shaped its organization.

Author : Germain Sicard
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780300156485

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The Origins of Corporations by Germain Sicard Pdf

Fully modern corporations appeared in fourteenth-century Toulouse, much earlier than previously believed Germain Sicard proves that Europe's first corporations were fourteenth-century mill companies operating in Toulouse, rather than seventeenth-century English and Dutch trading companies as commonly believed. He shows that the corporate form derives from a unique ownership contract from Medieval Europe called pariage, and a culture of strong property rights and municipal self-governance. Based on archival research, Sicard's 1952 thesis has been translated into English with an introduction that places the work in the context of new institutional economics and legal theory. It is an important contribution to research on the history and legal origins of the corporation.

Author : Summerfield Baldwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Economic history
ISBN : UOM:49015000932799

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Business in the Middle Ages by Summerfield Baldwin Pdf

Author : Edwin S. Hunt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002-05-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521894158

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The Medieval Super-Companies by Edwin S. Hunt Pdf

A detailed 1994 description and history of one of the most famous companies of the early fourteenth century, the Peruzzi Company.

Author : Hitomi Tonomura
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804766142

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Community and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan by Hitomi Tonomura Pdf

Late medieval Japan witnessed a growth in the power of the commoner, as seen in the spread of corporate villages (so) marked by collective ownership and administration and other self-governing features. This study of a community of so villages in central Japan from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries reconstructs the life of these villages by analyzing the rich and abundant communal records largely written by the villagers themselves and carefully preserved in the local shrine. The author show how these villagers founded and operated a shrine-centered organization that brought coherence, order, and prestige to the community at the same time it formalized the differences among the residents along gender and class lines. The Tokuchin-ho so was a governmental, social, and religious institution that facilitated the movement toward localism, but, the author argues, its growing collective power and organization also benefited its local proprietor, the great monastic complex of Enryakuji. Political and economic resources flowed vertically between the client-village and the patron-proprietor as they collaborated to secure internal peace and wide-reaching commercial interests. The book traces the transformation of the so as late medieval decentralization gave way to politically unified early modern society, with its enforced transfer of merchants from villages to towns, confiscation of shrine land, and the relinquishment of the so's political authority. Despite these efforts, as a powerful organization experienced in promoting communal order, the so was able to maintain its medieval legacy of self-determination, substantially preempting bureaucratic intervention in local governance. The local records allow the author to study the so from the villagers' perspective, and she presents new information on the position of women in rural communities, the local mode of economic surplus accumulation, the detailed social and economic functions of a shrine, and the reaction to nationwide cadastral surveys. The book is illustrated with 21 halftones.

Author : Noëlle Phillips
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1641894628

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Craft Beer Culture and Modern Medievalism by Noëlle Phillips Pdf

In recent years craft beer marketing has increasingly evoked the medieval past in orderto appeal to our collective sense of a lost community. This book discusses thedesire for the local, the non-corporate, and the pre-modern in the discourse ofcraft brewing, forming a strong counter-cultural narrative. However, suchdiscourses also reinforce colonial histories of purity and conquest whileeffacing indigenous voices. This book reveals that craft beer is therefore muchmore than a delicious adult beverage; its marketing reveals a cultural desirefor a past that has disappeared in a world that privileges the present.

Author : Vladimir Shlapentokh,Joshua Woods
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271037813

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Feudal America by Vladimir Shlapentokh,Joshua Woods Pdf

"Uses a feudal model to analyze contemporary American society, comparing its essential characteristics to those of medieval European societies"--Provided by publisher.

Author : M. Casson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137305824

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The Entrepreneur in History by M. Casson Pdf

Covering the period c.1200-c.2000, this book provides an innovative investigation of entrepreneurship in a long-run historical perspective, presenting new insights into the personal characteristics of successful business people and deepening our understanding of the roots of industrialization and economic growth.

Author : Kathryn Reyerson
Publisher : PIMS
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0888440758

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Business, Banking, and Finance in Medieval Montpellier by Kathryn Reyerson Pdf

Author : R. B. Dobson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781852851200

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Church and Society in the Medieval North of England by R. B. Dobson Pdf

This collection of essays discusses aspects of church life in each of the three dioceses of Carlisle, Durham and York, identifying the main features of religion in the north and placing contemporary religious attitudes in both a social and a local context

Author : Georges Renard
Publisher : Ozymandias Press
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781531286613

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Guilds in the Middle Ages by Georges Renard Pdf

The origin of guilds has been the subject of a great deal of discussion, and two opposing theories have been advanced. According to the first theory they were the persistence of earlier institutions; but what were these institutions? Some say that, more particularly in the south of France, they were of Roman and Byzantine origin, and were derived from those collegia of the poorer classes (tenuiorum) which, in the last centuries of the Empire, chiefly concerned themselves with the provision of funerals; or, again, from the scholae, official and compulsory groups, which, keeping the name of the hall in which their councils assembled, prolonged their existence till about the year 1000.

Author : Madeleine Pelner Cosman,Linda Gale Jones
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 987 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781438109077

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Handbook to Life in the Medieval World, 3-Volume Set by Madeleine Pelner Cosman,Linda Gale Jones Pdf

Capturing the essence of life in great civilizations of the past, each volume in the

Author : Casson, Catherine,Casson, Mark
Publisher : Bristol University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781529209259

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Compassionate Capitalism by Casson, Catherine,Casson, Mark Pdf

It may seem like a recent trend, but the businesses have been practising “Compassionate Capitalism” for nearly a thousand years. Based on the recently discovered historical documents on Cambridge’s sophisticated urban property market during the Commercial Revolution in the thirteenth century, this book explores how successful entrepreneurs employed the wealth they had accumulated to the benefit of the community. Cutting across disciplines, from economic and business history to entrepreneurship, philanthropy and medieval studies, this outstanding study presents an invaluable contribution to our knowledge of the early phases of capitalism. The Cambridge Hundred Rolls Sources Volume, a companion replacing the previous incomplete and inaccurate transcription by the Record Commission of 1818, is also now available from Bristol University Press.