Power and Profit: The Merchant in Medieval Europe

Power and Profit: The Merchant in Medieval Europe

Newly available in paperback, this is a wonderfully readable account of the role of merchants and money in the medieval world. Professor Spufford, who has made a lifelong study of the subject, brings together a vast amount of material from archives all over the world to build up this important economic history of the origins of capitalism – essential reading for the scholar, but also engaging and entertaining to the layman.

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Peter Spufford – Thames & Hudson Ltd