Throughout human history luxury textiles have been used as a marker of importance, power and distinction. Yet, as the essays in this collection make clear, the term 'luxury' is one that can be fraught with difficulties for historians. Focusing upon the consumption, commercialisa…
Merchants, pirates, and smugglers: criminalization, economics, and the transformatio…
by Lambert, Bart, Barros, Amandio, Baur, Kilian, Carr, Mike, Christ, Georg, Daniels, Tobias, Dartmann, Christoph, Kelleher, Marie, Krey, Alexander, Meichsner, Michael, Miranda, Flavio, Mozeijko, Beata, Sohmer Tai, Emily, Vognsen Hansen, Frederik
fromDiscourses of weakness and resource regimes
During the second half of the fourteenth and the first half of the fifteenth century, it was particularly hazardous for medieval merchants to invest in government finance. The 'certainty of uncertainty' involved in dealing with princes proved disastrous for innumerable businesse…
"While the emphasis of the book lies on the Rapondis' activities in Bruges, the meeting-place of international trade and finance in the fourteenth and fifteenth century, it also offers new insights into other important episodes of this period, including the Great Western Schism …
"While the emphasis of the book lies on the Rapondis' activities in Bruges, the meeting-place of international trade and finance in the fourteenth and fifteenth century, it also offers new insights into other important episodes of this period, including the Great Western Schism …