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100 1 $aHowell, Martha C.
245 10 $aCommerce before capitalism in Europe, 1300-1600 /$cMartha C. Howell.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2010.
300 $axii, 365 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aMovable/immovable : what's in a name? -- "Pour l'amour et affection conjugale" -- Gift work -- The dangers of dress -- Rescuing commerce.
520 $aMartha C. Howell argues that the merchants, shopkeepers, artisans, and consumers in cities and courts throughout Western Europe were by no means proto-capitalist and did not consider their property a fungible asset. Even though they freely bought and sold property using sophisticated financial techniques, they preserved its capacity to secure social bonds by intensifying market regulations and by assigning new meaning to marriage, gift-giving, and consumption. Later generations have sometimes found such actions perplexing, often dismissing them as evidence that business people of the late medieval and early modern worlds did not fully understand market rules. Howell, by contrast, shows that such practices were governed by a logic specific to their age and that, however primitive they may appear to subsequent generations, these practices made Europe's economic future possible. --from publisher description.
650 0 $aCommerce$xHistory$yMedieval, 500-1500.
650 0 $aCommerce$xHistory$y16th century.
651 0 $aEurope$xCommerce.
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