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Book Glossary of Mediaeval Terms of Business  Italian Series  1200 1600  Selections from Part I   By  Florence Edler     Planographed as Manuscript

Download or read book Glossary of Mediaeval Terms of Business Italian Series 1200 1600 Selections from Part I By Florence Edler Planographed as Manuscript written by Mediaeval Academy of America (CAMBRIDGE, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Medieval Super companies

Download or read book The Medieval Super companies written by Edwin S. Hunt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1994 book presents a detailed description and history of one of the most famous companies of the early fourteenth century. This analysis of the Peruzzi Company produces a radical reassessment of what made the Florentine 'super-companies' so exceptional: commodity trading, especially in grain, which required heavy capital, sophisticated organisation, and an international network. But the book also exposes the limitations of their financial power, and explodes the myth that the collapse of the Peruzzi and its joint-venture partner, the Bardi, was caused by bad loans to Edward III made to finance his invasions of France.

Book The Rise and Decline of the Medici Bank  1397 1494

Download or read book The Rise and Decline of the Medici Bank 1397 1494 written by Raymond De Roover and published by Beard Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic history of banking and trade in the medieval period, combining superb research and analysis with graceful writing. The Medici Bank was the most powerful banking house of the 15th century. Headquartered in Florence, Italy, it established branches in Rome, Venice, Geneva, Lyons, Bruges, London, and many other cities. The bank served as financial agent of the Church, extended credit to monarchs, and facilitated international trade in Western Europe. By their personal influence and the use of their profits, the owners and administrators of the bank contributed significantly to the development of Florence as the greatest center of the Renaissance.

Book Glossary of Mediaeval Terms of Business

Download or read book Glossary of Mediaeval Terms of Business written by and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dressing Renaissance Florence

Download or read book Dressing Renaissance Florence written by Carole Collier Frick and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-07-20 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As portraits, private diaries, and estate inventories make clear, elite families of the Italian Renaissance were obsessed with fashion, investing as much as forty percent of their fortunes on clothing. In fact, the most elaborate outfits of the period could cost more than a good-sized farm out in the Mugello. Yet despite its prominence in both daily life and the economy, clothing has been largely overlooked in the rich historiography of Renaissance Italy. In Dressing Renaissance Florence, however, Carole Collier Frick provides the first in-depth study of the Renaissance fashion industry, focusing on Florence, a city founded on cloth, a city of wool manufacturers, finishers, and merchants, of silk dyers, brocade weavers, pearl dealers, and goldsmiths. From the artisans who designed and assembled the outfits to the families who amassed fabulous wardrobes, Frick's wide-ranging and innovative interdisciplinary history explores the social and political implications of clothing in Renaissance Italy's most style-conscious city. Frick begins with a detailed account of the industry itself -- its organization within the guild structure of the city, the specialized work done by male and female workers of differing social status, the materials used and their sources, and the garments and accessories produced. She then shows how the driving force behind the growth of the industry was the elite families of Florence, who, in order to maintain their social standing and family honor, made continuous purchases of clothing -- whether for everyday use or special occasions -- for their families and households. And she concludes with an analysis of the clothes themselves: what pieces made up an outfit; how outfits differed for men, women, and children; and what colors, fabrics, and design elements were popular. Further, and perhaps more basically, she asks how we know what we know about Renaissance fashion and looks to both Florence's sumptuary laws, which defined what could be worn on the streets, and the depiction of contemporary clothing in Florentine art for the answer. For Florence's elite, appearance and display were intimately bound up with self-identity. Dressing Renaissance Florence enables us to better understand the social and cultural milieu of Renaissance Italy.

Book French and Italian Lexical Influences in German speaking Switzerland

Download or read book French and Italian Lexical Influences in German speaking Switzerland written by Felicity J. Rash and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series Studia Linguistica Germanica, founded in 1968 by Ludwig Erich Schmitt and Stefan Sonderegger, is one of the standard publication organs for German Linguistics. The series aims to cover the whole spectrum of the subject, while concentrating on questions relating to language history and the history of linguistic ideas. It includes works on the historical grammar and semantics of German, on the relationship of language and culture, on the history of language theory, on dialectology, on lexicology / lexicography, text linguisticsand on the location of German in the European linguistic context.

Book Glossary of Mediaeval Terms of Business  Italian Series  1200 1600  Selections from Part I  Florence Edler    Planographed as Manuscript

Download or read book Glossary of Mediaeval Terms of Business Italian Series 1200 1600 Selections from Part I Florence Edler Planographed as Manuscript written by Florence Edler De Roover and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Glossary of Mediaeval Terms of Business  Italian Series  1200 1600

Download or read book Glossary of Mediaeval Terms of Business Italian Series 1200 1600 written by Florence Marguerite Edler and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Art of the Network

Download or read book The Art of the Network written by Paul D. McLean and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-07 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing letters to powerful people to win their favor and garner rewards such as political office, tax relief, and recommendations was an institution in Renaissance Florence; the practice was an important tool for those seeking social mobility, security, and recognition by others. In this detailed study of political and social patronage in fifteenth-century Florence, Paul D. McLean shows that patronage was much more than a pursuit of specific rewards. It was also a pursuit of relationships and of a self defined in relation to others. To become independent in Renaissance Florence, one first had to become connected. With The Art of the Network, McLean fills a gap in sociological scholarship by tracing the historical antecedents of networking and examining the concept of self that accompanies it. His analysis of patronage opens into a critique of contemporary theories about social networks and social capital, and an exploration of the sociological meaning of “culture.” McLean scrutinized thousands of letters to and from Renaissance Florentines. He describes the social protocols the letters reveal, paying particular attention to the means by which Florentines crafted credible presentations of themselves. The letters, McLean contends, testify to the development not only of new forms of self-presentation but also of a new kind of self to be presented: an emergent, “modern” conception of self as an autonomous agent. They also bring to the fore the importance that their writers attached to concepts of honor, and the ways that they perceived themselves in relation to the Florentine state.

Book The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business written by Teresa da Silva Lopes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business draws together a wide array of state-of-the-art research on multinational enterprises. The volume aims to deepen our historical understanding of how firms and entrepreneurs contributed to transformative processes of globalization. This book explores how global business facilitated the mechanisms of cross-border interactions that affected individuals, organizations, industries, national economies and international relations. The 37 chapters span the Middle Ages to the present day, analyzing the emergence of institutions and actors alongside key contextual factors for global business development. Contributors examine business as a central actor in globalization, covering myriad entrepreneurs, organizational forms and key industrial sectors. Taking a historical view, the chapters highlight the intertwined and evolving nature of economic, political, social, technological and environmental patterns and relationships. They explore dynamic change as well as lasting continuities, both of which often only become visible – and can only be fully understood – when analyzed in the long run. With dedicated chapters on challenges such as political risk, sustainability and economic growth, this prestigious collection provides a one-stop shop for a key business discipline. Chapter 31 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Book The Spiritual Power  Republican Florence under Interdict

Download or read book The Spiritual Power Republican Florence under Interdict written by Richard C. Trexler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A folk adaptation of the American black spiritual in which the Lord instructs Noah to "build him an arky, arky" out of "hickory barky, barky."

Book Glossary of Mediaeval Terms of Business  By Florence Elder  Italian Series  1200 1600   With a Bibliography

Download or read book Glossary of Mediaeval Terms of Business By Florence Elder Italian Series 1200 1600 With a Bibliography written by Mediaeval Academy of America (CAMBRIDGE, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Business  Banking  and Finance in Medieval Montpellier

Download or read book Business Banking and Finance in Medieval Montpellier written by Kathryn Reyerson and published by PIMS. This book was released on 1985 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Glossary of Mediaeval Terms of Business  Italian Series  1200 1600  by Florence Edler

Download or read book Glossary of Mediaeval Terms of Business Italian Series 1200 1600 by Florence Edler written by Florence Edler De Roover and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Glossary of Mediaeval Terms of Business  Italian Series

Download or read book Glossary of Mediaeval Terms of Business Italian Series written by Florence Edler and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Quantitative Studies of the Renaissance Florentine Economy and Society

Download or read book Quantitative Studies of the Renaissance Florentine Economy and Society written by Richard T. Lindholm and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2017-01-02 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quantitative Studies of the Renaissance Florentine Economy and Society is a collection of nine quantitative studies probing aspects of Renaissance Florentine economy and society. The collection, organized by topic, source material and analysis methods, discusses risk and return, specifically the population’s responses to the plague and also the measurement of interest rates. The work analyzes the population’s wealth distribution, the impact of taxes and subsidies on art and architecture, the level of neighborhood segregation and the accumulation of wealth. Additionally, this study assesses the competitiveness of Florentine markets and the level of monopoly power, the nature of women’s work and the impact of business risk on the organization of industrial production.