Markets And Their Actors In The Late Middle Ages

Author : Tanja Skambraks,Julia Bruch,Ulla Kypta
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110643756

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Markets and their Actors in the Late Middle Ages by Tanja Skambraks,Julia Bruch,Ulla Kypta Pdf

Markets feature prominently in recent research of premodern historians as well as economists. Discussions cover the questions, for example, how a market can be grasp as a place, an event or a mechanism of exchange, or whether premodern economies have just hosted markets or if some of them can even be regarded as market economies. The proposed volume will now turn to the agents who forged and connected markets. Exchange was done between persons and with the help of persons: Artisans, retailers and poor people tried to better their living conditions by engaging on the market, merchants interconnected different markets, urban personnel (such as brokers, men working at the public scales, or the town council as a whole) regulated and facilitated exchange. By focusing on economic practices and the agents who performed them, the volume aims at analyzing the specific characteristics of premodern markets, the reasons why people became active on the market and the institutions which formed exchange processes and were in turn shaped by them.

Author : Tanja Skambraks,Julia Bruch,Ulla Kypta
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110642421

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Markets and their Actors in the Late Middle Ages by Tanja Skambraks,Julia Bruch,Ulla Kypta Pdf

Markets feature prominently in recent research of premodern historians as well as economists. Discussions cover the questions, for example, how a market can be grasp as a place, an event or a mechanism of exchange, or whether premodern economies have just hosted markets or if some of them can even be regarded as market economies. The proposed volume will now turn to the agents who forged and connected markets. Exchange was done between persons and with the help of persons: Artisans, retailers and poor people tried to better their living conditions by engaging on the market, merchants interconnected different markets, urban personnel (such as brokers, men working at the public scales, or the town council as a whole) regulated and facilitated exchange. By focusing on economic practices and the agents who performed them, the volume aims at analyzing the specific characteristics of premodern markets, the reasons why people became active on the market and the institutions which formed exchange processes and were in turn shaped by them.

Author : Katalin Szende,Erika Szívós,Boglárka Weisz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003851585

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Cities and Economy in Europe by Katalin Szende,Erika Szívós,Boglárka Weisz Pdf

Exploring new perspectives concerning regions traditionally considered “on the margins” of Europe, this book fills a gap in current historiography through its analysis of cities, space, and economy from the High Middle Ages to the present. Markets, trade, and economy in general have formed the backbone of urban life ever since the emergence of cities and towns, but classical theorists have largely focused on developments in Western Europe. Urban research in the last few decades has advanced in many ways to supersede and correct this still influential image and to include other parts of Europe into the analytical framework. Building on these emerging methodologies, this volume pays close attention to the fringes of Europe in the East, North, West, and South. The essays discuss the development of various spaces as nodal points for the exchange and production of commodities that took place in cities and towns. The scope of this work allows for a point of comparison to frequently studied examples in Europe, encouraging readers to identify larger patterns beyond individual examples. Cities and Economy in Europe: Markets and Trade on the Margins from the Middle Ages to the Present is the perfect resource for students and researchers of economic and urban history.

Author : Lawrin Armstrong,Martin M. Elbl,Ivana Elbl,Lawrin David Armstrong
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004156333

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Money, Markets and Trade in Late Medieval Europe by Lawrin Armstrong,Martin M. Elbl,Ivana Elbl,Lawrin David Armstrong Pdf

The volume explores late medieval market mechanisms and associated institutional, fiscal and monetary, organizational, decision-making, legal and ethical issues, as well as selected aspects of production, consumption and market integration. The essays span a variety of local, regional, and long-distance markets and networks.

Author : Philipp Robinson Rössner
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 9781529211221

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Managing the Wealth of Nations by Philipp Robinson Rössner Pdf

This pioneering work debunks the neoliberal origin myth of how capitalism came into the world.

Author : Tanja Skambraks,Martin Lutz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783031298349

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Reassessing the Moral Economy by Tanja Skambraks,Martin Lutz Pdf

This book examines the concept of moral economy originally established by E.P. Thompson, focusing on the impact of religious norms on economic practice. With each chapter discussing a different empirical case study, the interrelations of the economy and religion are explored from antiquity through to the 20th century. The long-term trajectory and comparative perspective allows for moral economy to be seen in relation to ancient Greek commerce, medieval pawn-broking, Christian and Jewish economic ethics, urban social politics during the Plague, the Jesuit mission in Paraguay, the Ottoman Empire, religion in modern American capitalism, and Catholic attitudes toward taxation. This book aims to provide insight into how moral thinking about the economy and economic practice has evolved from a long historic perspective. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in economic history and cultural economics.

Author : Ben Dodds,Christian Drummond Liddy
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781843836841

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Commercial Activity, Markets and Entrepreneurs in the Middle Ages by Ben Dodds,Christian Drummond Liddy Pdf

Numerous aspects of the medieval economy are covered in this new collection of essays, from business fraud and changes in wages to the production of luxury goods. Long dominated by theories of causation involving class conflict and Malthusian crisis, the field of medieval economic history has been transformed in recent years by a better understanding of the process of commercialisation. Inrecognition of the important work in this area by Richard Britnell, this volume of essays brings together studies by historians from both sides of the Atlantic on fundamental aspects of the medieval commercial economy. From examinations of high wages, minimum wages and unemployment, through to innovative studies of consumption and supply, business fraud, economic regulation, small towns, the use of charters, and the role of shipmasters and peasants as entrepreneurs, this collection is essential reading for the student of the medieval economy. Contributors: John Hatcher, John Langdon, Derek Keene, John S. Lee, James Davis, Mark Bailey, Christine M. Newman, Peter L. Larson, Maryanne Kowaleski, Martha Carlin, James Masschaele, Christopher Dyer

Author : Claudia Bernardi, Viola Franziska Müller, Biljana Stojić, Vilhelm Vilhelmsson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783111137681

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Moving Workers by Claudia Bernardi, Viola Franziska Müller, Biljana Stojić, Vilhelm Vilhelmsson Pdf

Author : Anamarija Batista, Viola Franziska Müller,Corinna Peres
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800085381

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Coercion and Wage Labour by Anamarija Batista, Viola Franziska Müller,Corinna Peres Pdf

Coercion and Wage Labour presents novel histories of people who experienced physical, social, political or cultural compulsion in the course of paid work. Broad in scope, the chapters examine diverse areas of work including textile production, war industries, civil service and domestic labour, in contexts from the Middle Ages to the present day. They demonstrate that wages have consistently shaped working people’s experiences, and failed to protect workers from coercion. Instead, wages emerge as versatile tools to bind, control, and exploit workers. Remuneration mirrors the distribution of power in labour relations, often separating employers physically and emotionally from their employees, and disguising coercion. The book makes historical narratives accessible for interdisciplinary audiences. Most chapters are preceded by illustrations by artists invited to visually conceptualise the book’s key messages and to emphasise the presence of the body and landscape in the realm of work. In turn, the chapter texts reflect back on the artworks, creating an intense intermedial dialogue that offers mutually relational ‘translations’ and narrations of labour coercion. Other contributions written by art scholars discuss how coercion in remunerated labour is constructed and reflected in artistic practice. The collection serves as an innovative and creative tool for teaching, and raises awareness that narrating history is always contingent on the medium chosen and its inherent constraints and possibilities. Praise for Coercion and Wage Labour Coercion and Wage Labour is a pioneering volume. It makes a well-founded break with the widespread misconception that wage labour is by definition free from coercion. The fourteen historical case studies ... lead to the conclusion that wage labourers too were subject to many forms of coercion and that usually their “freedom” was and is only relative. But something else makes this book special: throughout the text there are artistic illustrations that enter into a dialogue with the individual chapters, which in turn reflect on the images. This creates an inspiring interaction that complements the volume’s interdisciplinary nature. Marcel van der Linden, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam

Author : Carme Muntaner Alsina,Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel,David Carrillo Rangel
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527512344

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Sensual and Sensory Experiences in the Middle Ages by Carme Muntaner Alsina,Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel,David Carrillo Rangel Pdf

Where was the line between pleasure and irritation in the sensory overload caused by the sounds, colours, and smells of a medieval market? How could pain and suffering be relieved by hoping for, and desiring to experience, an intimate, almost familiar, contact with Christ? This volume shows the different aspects of sensory experiences that medieval people conveyed through documents, literary accounts, and religious practices. The unifying theme here is how pleasure, pain, desire, and fear appear in different—sometimes conflicting—combinations and settings: from the private space of the monastic cell to the shared hustle of the market. The geographic focus of this volume is Mediterranean Europe, although it also touches on other Western contexts. The combination of different points of view here provides an original contribution to the study of sensory experiences in the Middle Ages.

Author : Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789256147

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Markets and Exchanges in Pre-Modern and Traditional Societies by Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia Pdf

Markets emerge in recent historical research as important spheres of economic interaction in ancient societies. In the case of ancient Egypt, traditional models imagined an all-encompassing centralized, bureaucratic economy that left practically no place for market transactions, as many surviving documents only described the activities of the royal palace and of huge institutions?mainly temples. Yet scattered references in the sources reveal that markets and traders were crucial actors in the economic life of ancient Egypt. In this perspective, this volume aims to discuss the role of markets, traders and economic interaction (not necessarily organized through markets) and the use of “money” (metals, valuable commodities) in pre-modern societies, based on archaeological, anthropological and historical evidence. Furthermore, it intends to integrate different perspectives about the social organization of transactions and exchanges and the different forms taken by markets, from meeting places where exchanges operated under ritualized procedures and conventions, to markets in which profit-seeking activities were marginal in respect with other practices that stressed, on the contrary, community collaboration. The book also deals with social forms of pre-modern exchanges in which trust and ethnic solidarity guaranteed the validity of commercial operations in the absence of formal codes of laws or accepted authorities over long distances (trade diasporas, guilds, etc.). Finally, the volume analyzes a critical aspect of small-scale trade and markets, such as the commercialization of agricultural household production and its impact on the peasant economic strategies. In all, the book covers a diversity of topics in which recent research in the fields of economic sociology, archaeology, anthropology, economics and history proves invaluable in order to analyze the role of Egyptian trade in a broader perspective, as well as to suggest new venues of comparative research, theoretical reflection and dialogue between Egyptology and social sciences. The book will also address pre-modern social organizations of trade activities in which trust and ethnic solidarity guaranteed the validity of commercial operations in the absence of formal codes of laws or accepted authorities over long distances, particularly trade diasporas, guilds, etc. This book will be the first in the new series from Oxbow, Multidisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Societies.

Author : Russell W. Belk,Giana M. Eckhardt,Fleura Bardhi
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781788110549

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Handbook of the Sharing Economy by Russell W. Belk,Giana M. Eckhardt,Fleura Bardhi Pdf

With the radical growth in the ubiquity of digital platforms, the sharing economy is here to stay. This Handbook explores the nature and direction of the sharing economy, interrogating its key dynamics and evolution over the past decade and critiquing its effect on society.

Author : Paul D. Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415782814

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Security Studies by Paul D. Williams Pdf

The first part of this book defines the field and offers a short historiography of its development. Subsequent parts explore the theoretical approaches of security studies, look at the central concepts that underpin contemporary debates, look at existing institutional security architecture, and examine some of the challenges ahead.

Author : Bas van Bavel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191086656

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Manors and Markets by Bas van Bavel Pdf

The Low Countries — an area roughly embracing the present-day Netherlands and Belgium — formed a patchwork of varied economic and social development in the Middle Ages, with some regions displaying a remarkable dynamism. Manors and Markets charts the history of these vibrant economies and societies, and contrasts them with alternative paths of development, from the early medieval period to the beginning of the seventeenth century. Providing a concise overview of social and economic changes over more than a thousand years, Bas van Bavel assesses the impact of the social and institutional organization that saw the Low Countries become the most urbanized and densely populated part of Europe by the end of the Middle Ages. By delving into the early and high medieval history of society, van Bavel uncovers the foundations of the flourishing of the medieval Flemish towns and the forces that propelled Holland towards its Golden Age. Exploring the Low Countries at a regional level, van Bavel highlights the importance of localized structures for determining the nature of social transitions and economic growth. He assesses the role of manorial organization, the emergence of markets, the rise of towns, the quest for self-determination by ordinary people, and the sharp regional differences in development that can be observed in the very long run. In doing so, the book offers a significant contribution to the debate about the causes of economic and social change, both past and present.

Author : Deborah D. Avant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139446541

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The Market for Force by Deborah D. Avant Pdf

The legitimate use of force is generally presumed to be the realm of the state. However, the flourishing role of the private sector in security over the last twenty years has brought this into question. In this book Deborah Avant examines the privatization of security and its impact on the control of force. She describes the growth of private security companies, explains how the industry works, and describes its range of customers – including states, non-government organisations and commercial transnational corporations. She charts the inevitable trade-offs that the market for force imposes on the states, firms and people wishing to control it, suggests a new way to think about the control of force, and offers a model of institutional analysis that draws on both economic and sociological reasoning. The book contains case studies drawn from the US and Europe as well as Africa and the Middle East.