A History of Business in Medieval Europe, 1200-1550 (Hardcover)

Introduction; Part I. Before the Black Death: Progress and Problems: 1. Economics, culture, and geography of early medieval trade; 2; Tools of trade: business organization; 3. Traders and their tools; 4. The politics of business; 5. Business gets bigger: the super-company phenomenon; Part II. Business in the Late Middle Ages: A Harvest of Adversity: Introduction; 6. The new business environment of the Middle Ages; 7. Business responses to the new environment; 8. The fifteenth century: revolutionary results from old processes; 9. Sources of capital in the late Middle Ages; 10. A new age for business; Conclusions; Further reading.