Martha C. Howell

Commerce before Capitalism in Europe, 1300-1600

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Challenges dominant interpretations of the relationship between the so-called commercial revolution of late medieval Europe and the capitalist age that followed.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 378
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9780521760461
• ISBN-10: 0521760461
• Artikelnr.: 28111862

Autorenporträt

Martha C. Howell is Miriam Champion Professor of History at Columbia University. The recipient of awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Fulbright Commission, and the American Council of Learned Societies, among others, she is the author and editor of many books, including Women, Production and Patriarchy in Late Medieval Cities and The Marriage Exchange: Property, Social Place and Gender in Cities of the Low Countries, 1300-1550. In 2005, she was named Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, by the University of Ghent.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Movable/immovable, what's in a name?
2. 'Pour l'amour et affection conjugale'
3. Gift work
4. The dangers of dress
5. Rescuing commerce
Afterword.