Author | : Adriaan Verhulst |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2002-10-17 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521004749 |
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Author | : Adriaan Verhulst |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2002-10-17 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521004749 |
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Author | : Marios Costambeys |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2011-05-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521563666 |
A comprehensive and accessible survey of the great Carolingian empire, which dominated western Europe in the eighth and ninth centuries.
Author | : Georges Duby |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780801491696 |
Explores the economics of Europe in the early Middle Ages.
Author | : Michael McCormick |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1138 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521661027 |
A comprehensive analysis of economic transition between the later Roman empire and Charlemagne's reigne.
Author | : Diana Wood |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2002-10-17 |
Genre | : 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 | : Robert Latouche |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780415379946 |
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Clemens Gantner |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2020-12-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108840779 |
Offers new perspectives on the fascinating but neglected history of ninth-century Italy and the impact of Carolingian culture.
Author | : Valerie L. Garver |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2012-05-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0801460174 |
Despite the wealth of scholarship in recent decades on medieval women, we still know much less about the experiences of women in the early Middle Ages than we do about those in later centuries. In Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World, Valerie L. Garver offers a fresh appraisal of the cultural and social history of eighth- and ninth-century women. Examining changes in women's lives and in the ways others perceived women during the early Middle Ages, she shows that lay and religious women, despite their legal and social constrictions, played integral roles in Carolingian society. Garver's innovative book employs an especially wide range of sources, both textual and material, which she uses to construct a more complex and nuanced impression of aristocratic women than we've seen before. She looks at the importance of female beauty and adornment; the family and the construction of identities and collective memory; education and moral exemplarity; wealth, hospitality and domestic management; textile work, and the lifecycle of elite Carolingian women. Her interdisciplinary approach makes deft use of canons of church councils, chronicles, charters, polyptychs, capitularies, letters, poetry, exegesis, liturgy, inventories, hagiography, memorial books, artworks, archaeological remains, and textiles. Ultimately, Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World underlines the centrality of the Carolingian era to the reshaping of antique ideas and the development of lasting social norms.
Author | : Angeliki E. Laiou |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2007-09-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139465759 |
This is a concise survey of the economy of the Byzantine Empire from the fourth century AD to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Organised chronologically, the book addresses key themes such as demography, agriculture, manufacturing and the urban economy, trade, monetary developments, and the role of the state and ideology. It provides a comprehensive overview of the economy with an emphasis on the economic actions of the state and the productive role of the city and non-economic actors, such as landlords, artisans and money-changers. The final chapter compares the Byzantine economy with the economies of western Europe and concludes that the Byzantine economy was one of the most successful examples of a mixed economy in the pre-industrial world. This is the only concise general history of the Byzantine economy and will be essential reading for students of economic history, Byzantine history and medieval history more generally.