Markets and their actors in the late Middle Ages / edited by Tanja Skambraks, Julia Bruch, and Ulla Kypta.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bruch, Julia, editor.

Skambraks, Tanja, 1980- editor.

Kypta, Ulla, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Markets--History--To 1500.

Markets.

Middle Ages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (VI, 150 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany ; Boston, Massachusetts : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Introduction

How to Study the Premodern Market: The Concept of Market Exchange

Towards a Different Type of Market Exchange in the Early Middle Ages: The Sacrum Commercium and its Agents

Imagined Investors: Markets, Agents, and the Saxon Mining Administration

The “destroyers of trade”, “our good and dear Inhabitants”, and “all persons of what quality or nation however they may be”: Early Modern Colonial Market Culture

Markets and their Agents in History: Some Theoretical Reflections

List of authors

Index of names

Index of places

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110643756

3110643758

9783110642421

3110642425

OCLC:

1226678415