The History of Commercial Partnerships in the Middle Ages

The History of Commercial Partnerships in the Middle Ages
Author: Max Weber
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780742520493

This early book was a prelude to the multi-causal and multi-dimensional approach that scholars see reflected in Weber's later writings.

The Company in Law and Practice: Did Size Matter? (Middle Ages-Nineteenth Century)

The Company in Law and Practice: Did Size Matter? (Middle Ages-Nineteenth Century)
Author: Dave De ruysscher
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2017-08-21
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004351868

This volume brings together nine chapters by specialist legal historians that address the topic of the scale and size of companies, in both legal and economic history. The bundled texts cover different periods, from the Middle Ages, the Early Modern Period, to the nineteenth century. They analyse the historical development of basic features of present-day corporations and of other company types, among them the general and limited partnership. These features include limited liability and legal personality. A detailed overview is offered of how legal concepts and mercantile practice interacted, leading up to the corporate characteristics that are so important today. Contributors are: Anja Amend-Traut, Luisa Brunori, Dave De ruysscher, Stefania Gialdroni, Ulla Kypta, Bart Lambert, Annamaria Monti, Carlos Petit, and Bram Van Hofstraeten.

Migrating Words, Migrating Merchants, Migrating Law

Migrating Words, Migrating Merchants, Migrating Law
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2019-11-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004416641

Migrating Words, Migrating Merchants, Migrating Law examines the connections that existed between merchants’ journeys, the languages they used and the development of commercial law in the context of late medieval and early modern trade. The book, edited by Stefania Gialdroni, Albrecht Cordes, Serge Dauchy, Dave De ruysscher and Heikki Pihlajamäki, takes advantage of the expertise of leading scholars in different fields of study, in particular historians, legal historians and linguists. Thanks to this transdisciplinary approach, the book offers a fresh point of view on the history of commercial law in different cultural and geographical contexts, including medieval Cairo, Pisa, Novgorod, Lübeck, early modern England, Venice, Bruges, nineteenth century Brazil and many other trading centers. Contributors are Cornelia Aust, Guido Cifoletti, Mark R. Cohen, Albrecht Cordes, Maria Fusaro, Stefania Gialdroni, Mark Häberlein, Uwe Israel, Bart Lambert, David von Mayenburg, Hanna Sonkajärvi, and Catherine Squires.

Crusading and Trading between West and East

Crusading and Trading between West and East
Author: Sophia Menache
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2018-10-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351390724

For almost sixty years Professor David Jacoby devoted his research to the economic, social and cultural history of the Eastern Mediterranean and this new collection reflects his impact on the study of the interactions between the Italian city-states, Byzantium, the Latin East and the realm of Islam. Contributors to this volume are prominent scholars from across Medieval Studies and leading historians of the younger generation.

A Historian Reads Max Weber

A Historian Reads Max Weber
Author: Peter Ghosh
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2008
Genre: Capitalism
ISBN: 9783447057776

Max Weber's Protestant Ethic is undoubtedly the most widely-read text in Western social theory of the last century. But is it really known? The proposition of this book is that it is not. Innumerable readers will "know" it for their own pedagogic and theoretical purposes, but properly historical grasp of the work's full range of meanings, of its place within the fertile culture of the German states before 1914, and within Max Weber's intellectual biography remains slight. The essays in this volume derive from the author's work in translating and commenting on the Protestant Ethic. They seek (first) to cast light on the range and extent of Weber's intellectual concerns when he was writing in 1904-05: not just English Puritanism, German theology, and capitalism, but also Herrschaft, Judaism, and the shape of Occidental history. This then serves to recapture the continuity and unity of Weber's intellectual development, so that once more we may see the Protestant Ethic at the centre of his oeuvre, the indispensable prelude to all his later work, rather than setting it apart in splendid but curiously lifeless isolation.

The Logic of Social Research

The Logic of Social Research
Author: Arthur L. Stinchcombe
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2020-07-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 022678858X

Arthur L. Stinchcombe has earned a reputation as a leading practitioner of methodology in sociology and related disciplines. Throughout his distinguished career he has championed the idea that to be an effective sociologist, one must use many methods. This incisive work introduces students to the logic of those methods. The Logic of Social Research orients students to a set of logical problems that all methods must address to study social causation. Almost all sociological theory asserts that some social conditions produce other social conditions, but the theoretical links between causes and effects are not easily supported by observation. Observations cannot directly show causation, but they can reject or support causal theories with different degrees of credibility. As a result, sociologists have created four main types of methods that Stinchcombe terms quantitative, historical, ethnographic, and experimental to support their theories. Each method has value, and each has its uses for different research purposes. Accessible and astute, The Logic of Social Research offers an image of what sociology is, what it's all about, and what the craft of the sociologist consists of.

LEGAL HISTORY

LEGAL HISTORY
Author: R. C. Caenegem
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 255
Release: 1990-07-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0826420001

R.C. Van Caenegem is one of the few legal historians to have crossed national boundaries successfully. His knowledge of the various codes and customs of the European Continent in general and the Low Countries in particular enables him to bring a fresh eye to the English Common law. Four of these nine essays have not been published in English before.

Family Firms and Family Constitution

Family Firms and Family Constitution
Author: Holger Fleischer
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2023-12-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1837972028

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Family Firms and Family Constitution delves deeply into topics as diverse as ownership, succession, governance, justice and more, all from a managerial and legal perspective from around the world.

Methods in Premodern Economic History

Methods in Premodern Economic History
Author: Ulla Kypta
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 519
Release: 2019-10-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 303014660X

This edited collection demonstrates how economic history can be analysed using both quantitative and qualitative methods, connecting statistical research with the social, cultural and psychological aspects of history. With their focus on the time between the end of the commercial revolution and the Black Death (c. 1300), and the Thirty Years’ War (c. 1600), Kypta et al. redress a significant lack of published work regarding economic history methodology in the premodern period. Case studies stem from the Holy Roman Empire, one of the most important economic regions in premodern times, and reconnect the German premodern economic history approach with the grand narratives that have been developed mainly for Western European regions. Methodological approaches stemming from economics as well as from sociology and cultural studies show how multifaceted research in economic history can be, and how it might accordingly offer us new insights into premodern economies. Chapters 9 and 10 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

A History of Business in Medieval Europe, 1200-1550

A History of Business in Medieval Europe, 1200-1550
Author: Edwin S. Hunt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1999-03-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521499231

This book demolishes the widely held view that the phrase 'medieval business' is an oxymoron. The authors review the entire range of business in medieval western Europe, probing its Roman and Christian heritage to discover the economic and political forces that shaped the organization of agriculture, manufacturing, construction, mining, transportation and marketing. Businessmen's responses to the devastating plagues, famines, and warfare that beset Europe in the late Middle Ages are equally well covered. Medieval businessmen's remarkable success in coping with this hostile new environment was 'a harvest of adversity' that prepared the way for the economic expansion of the sixteenth century. Two main themes run through this book. First, the force and direction of business development in this period stemmed primarily from the demands of the elite. Second, the lasting legacy of medieval businessmen was less their skillful adaptations of imported inventions than their brilliant innovations in business organization.