Markets and their Actors in the Late Middle Ages

Published by De Gruyter 2021

Markets and their Actors in the Late Middle Ages

Edited by: Tanja Skambraks , Julia Bruch and Ulla Kypta

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110643756

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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.

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Tanja Skambraks, University of Mannheim, Julia Bruch, University of Köln und Ulla Kypta, University of Basel

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction Tanja Skambraks, Julia Bruch and Ulla Kypta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
How to Study the Premodern Market: The Concept of Market Exchange Ulla Kypta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Towards a Different Type of Market Exchange in the Early Middle Ages: The Sacrum Commercium and its Agents Franziska Quaas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Imagined Investors: Markets, Agents, and the Saxon Mining Administration Franziska Neumann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
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 Eva Brugger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Markets and their Agents in History: Some Theoretical Reflections Maria Aleksandrova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
List of authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Index of names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Index of places Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: (Economic) Historians, students, economists
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 150
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 2
Keywords: Markets; institutions; agents; premodern economy

eBook

Published: November 23, 2020
ISBN: 9783110643756

Hardcover

Published: November 23, 2020
ISBN: 9783110642216