Auteur : J. J. Jusserand
la langue : en
Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
Date de sortie : 2014-04-03
Originally published in 1919, this book contains the French text of J. J. Jusserand's book on nomadic life in the fourteenth century in England. Arthur Wilson-Green includes a series of exercises in French at the conclusion of the text, as well as extracts from texts in English that cover similar topics.
Auteur : Hippolyte Bernheim
la langue : en
Éditeur: Sagwan Press
Date de sortie : 2018-02-02
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Auteur : Clive Emsley
la langue : en
Éditeur: Greenwood Publishing Group
Date de sortie : 1996
Essays on criminal behavior and justice around the world, from medieval Western Europe to modern Canada.
Auteur : Edward Bulwer Lytton
la langue : en
Éditeur: Read Books Ltd
Date de sortie : 2017-07-21
“The Haunted And The Haunters” is a 1859 novel by Edward Bulwer Lytton. It is a horror story that deals with supernatural themes, not to be missed by lovers of frightening fiction. Lytton also wrote “A Strange Story (1862), a book that had a significant influence on Bram Stoker's “Dracula”. Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873) was an English novelist, playwright, poet, and politician. He is most famous for writing a series of bestselling novels, including : “Paul Clifford” (1830), “Eugene Aram” (1832), and “Godolphin” (1833). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
Auteur : S. D. Goitein
la langue : en
Éditeur: Princeton University Press
Date de sortie : 2015-03-08
Modern international business has its origins in the overseas trade of the Middle Ages. Of the various communities active in trade in the Islamic countries at that time, records of only the Jewish community survive. Thousands of documents were preserved in the Cairo Geniza, a lumber room attached to the synagogue where discarded writings containing the name of God were deposited to preserve them from desecration. From them Professor Goitein has selected eighty letters that provide a fascinating glimpse into the world of the medieval Jewish traders. As the letters vividly illustrate, international trade depended on a network of personal relationships and mutual confidence. Organization was largely through partnerships, based usually on ties of common religion but often reinforced by family connections. Sometimes the partners of Jews were Christians or Muslims, and the letters show these merchants working together in greater harmony than has been thought, even in partnerships that lasted through generations. The services rendered to a friend or partner and those expected from him were great, and the book opens with an angry letter from a merchant who believed he had been let down by his friend. The life of a trader was full of dangers, as the letter describing a shipwreck illustrates, and put great strain on personal relationships. One of the most moving letters is that written to his wife by a man absent in India for many years while endeavoring to make the family's fortunes. Although never ceasing to love her and longing to be with her, he offers to divorce her if she feels she can wait for him no longer. A decisive event in the life of the great Jewish philosopher, Moses Maimonides, was the death of his brother David, who drowned in the Indian Ocean. Printed here is the last letter David wrote, describing his safe crossing of the desert and announcing his intention to go on to India, against his brother's instructions. Professor Goitein has provided an introduction and notes for each letter, and a general introduction describing the social and spiritual world of the writers, the organization of overseas trade in the Middle Ages, and the goods traded. The letters demonstrate that although it reached from Spain to India, the traders' world was a cohesive one through which these men could move freely and always feel at home. Originally published in 1974. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Auteur : H. Van der Wee
la langue : en
Éditeur: Springer Science & Business Media
Date de sortie : 2013-06-29
The economy of Antwerp in the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries had a very special dynamism. It underwent the processes of rise, expansion, maturity and decadence with peculiar intensity. It gave an impressive stimulus to the commercial currents, maritime and contin ental, which converged on the town. It inspired the appearance and growth of new institutions and intensified changes in the social and economic structure. It was the heart of commerce, industry and agricul ture for a large area and particularly of Brabant, Flanders and Zeeland. Moreover Antwerp's economy was an important, and sometimes even the principal, artery of the whole European economy. Antwerp's dynamism was not purely irrational : numerous factors, which a detailed analysis allowed us to ascertain, forced its economic development. The first was le recitatif du cycle to use Braudel's termino logy t. This was however no mere histoire evenementielle. We closely followed the rhythm and even crises of Antwerp's economy, but all these quantitative and qualitative data allowed a comprehensive insight into the interdecennial waves. This permitted a reasonably distant view of the data which made it more possible to observe a logical dynamic. Thus it was not in the first place our purpose to present in this first part a purely documentary report of historical facts. We were rather concerned with the analysis of the factors which determined or influenced the dynamics of the Antwerp market and the economy of the Low Countries.