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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784884903321

Autore

Finkelstein Andrea <1949->

Titolo

The grammar of profit [[electronic resource] ] : the price revolution in intellectual context / / by Andrea Finkelstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2006

ISBN

1-281-39883-7

9786611398835

90-474-0890-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (384 p.)

Collana

Brill's studies in intellectual history, , 0920-8607 ; ; v. 138

Disciplina

338.4/30009409032

Soggetti

Prices - Europe - History - 16th century

Inflation (Finance) - Europe - History - 16th century

Profit - Europe - History - 16th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-353) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Chapter One: Profit and the Price Revolution -- Chapter Two: Body, Mind, and Soul -- Chapter Three: Family Values -- Chapter Four: Master and Servant -- Chapter Five: The Body of Profit -- Chapter Six: Profit and Distributive Justice I: The Sins of the Body -- Chapter Seven: Profit and Distributive Justice II: The Sins of the Monarch -- Chapter Eight: Profit and Commutative Justice -- Chapter Nine: The Modern Problem of Profit: A Paradox by Way of a Digression -- Chapter Ten: Conclusion: The Grammar of Profit in an Age of Revolutions -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This study explores the relationship between the prevailing concept of \'just profit\' and contemporary reactions to the Sixteenth-Century Price Revolution by tracing the evolving meaning of \'profit\' in religious, political, and social discourse. Using the period's own macrocosmic-microcosmic analogy, the book examines family correspondence, wills, and court cases in addition to formal tracts to move outward from issues of spiritual profit to family values, employment relationships, and church and state. While England's experience provides a focal point, extensive use of continental sources reveals the problem's broader context. This study should prove



particularly useful to those wishing to knit together the now particularized and separated strands of early modern economic, political, social, and religious history.