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Power and Profit: The Merchant in Medieval Europe
The earliest surviving check was drawn in 1365 by two Florentines to pay a draper for black cloth for a family funeral....In 1477 a confidence man persuaded a citizen of Cologne to buy shares in a nonexistent silver mine....From a thousand tiny facts like these, the fruit of nearly thirty years' research in the municipal archives, commercial records, account books, and let...more
Hardcover, 432 pages
Published
April 1st 2003
by Thames & Hudson
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This is not to race through...there's something to be learned on every page. From what was traded into and out of Europe to how it was transported and what it cost every step of the way, Spufford has delved into what little record there is and reached some persuasive conclusions about medieval entrepreneurship. The first-edition hardcover illustrations are eclectic, but useful. An excellent companion to his "Money and Its Uses in Medieval Europe"
An aside: I really wish Goodreads allowed 1/2 stars...
I appreciated so many things bout this book, right down to the gloss paper and wonderful full-color images thought the book (hardcover version). I had the sense that I was reading from a scholar, but also someone who loved the world he was writing about. He traveled the routes he spoke of, albeit in the 20th century.
I appreciated so many things bout this book, right down to the gloss paper and wonderful full-color images thought the book (hardcover version). I had the sense that I was reading from a scholar, but also someone who loved the world he was writing about. He traveled the routes he spoke of, albeit in the 20th century.
Found and changed a lot of incorrect assumptions
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Peter Spufford was until 2001 Professor of European History, University of Cambridge, and is the author of definitive studies of money in the Middle Ages.
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