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Informationen zum Autor Dr Quentin van Doosselaere is a research Fellow at Nuffield College. He combines a formal training in both sociology and business administration to focus on the emergence of capitalism at the end of the medieval period. Adding formal network analysis tools to detailed archival research! Dr van Doosselaere has studied the social foundations underpinning the economic changes that initiated the western dominance in global economic exchange. The multidisciplinary nature of his research has resulted in invitations to present his work to business! economics! history! and sociology departments in both Europe and the United States. Klappentext An empirical study of medieval long-distance trade agreements and the surrounding social dynamics, drawing on 20,000 notarial records. Zusammenfassung An empirical study of medieval long-distance trade agreements and the surrounding social dynamics that transformed the feudal organization of men-of-arms into the world of Renaissance merchants. Drawing on 20!000 notarial records! the book traces the commercial partnerships of thousands of people in Genoa from 1150 to 1435 and reports social activity. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures; List of tables; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; 1. From sword into capital; 2. Genoa at the dawn of the commercial expansion; 3. Equity partnerships for heterogeneous ties; 4. Credit network for routinized merchants; 5. Insurance ties for oligarchic cohesion; 6. Conclusion; Appendix A. Sample of prices and income; Appendix B. Sample of long-distance trade participants' occupations; Appendix C. Commenda network graphs; Appendix D. Nodal degree distributions of commenda networks; Appendix E. List of top mercantile nonaristocratic families; Appendix F. Partner selection probability model; Bibliography; Index.
