It may seem like a recent trend, but businesses have been practising compassionate capitalism for nearly a thousand years. Based on the newly discovered historical documents on Cambridge's sophisticated urban property market during the Commercial Revolution in the thirteenth century, this book explores how successful entrepreneurs employed the wealth they had accumulated to the benefit of the community. Cutting across disciplines, from economic and business history to entrepreneurship, philanthropy and medieval studies, this outstanding volume presents an invaluable contribution to our knowledge of the early phases of capitalism. A companion book, The Cambridge Hundred Rolls Sources Volume, replacing the previous incomplete and inaccurate transcription by the Record Commission of 1818, is also available from Bristol University Press.

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Information

Publisher

Bristol University Press

Year

2020

ISBN

9781529209273

Topic

Economics

Subtopic

Economic History

Index

Economics

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Figures and Tables
Family Trees
Abbreviations
Notes on the Authors
Preface and Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Dynamics of the Property Market
3. Economic Topography
4. Family Profiles
5. Family Dynasties: Success and Failure
6. Cambridge in a Regional and National Context
7. Legacy: Cambridge in the 14th and 15th Centuries
8. Conclusions
References