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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819871403321

Autore

Häberlein Mark

Titolo

The Fuggers of Augsburg : pursuing wealth and honor in Renaissance Germany / / Mark Haberlein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, c2012

ISBN

1-280-48946-4

9786613584694

0-8139-3258-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 p.)

Collana

Studies in early modern German history

Disciplina

929.20943

Soggetti

Renaissance - Germany - Augsburg

Capitalists and financiers - Germany - Augsburg

Wealth - Germany - Augsburg - History

Honor - Germany - Augsburg - History

Augsburg (Germany) Biography

Augsburg (Germany) Social conditions

Augsburg (Germany) Economic conditions

Europe Commerce History To 1500

Europe Commerce History 16th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Originally published in German as Die Fugger : Geschichte einer Augsburger Familie, 1367-1650, c2006"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-269) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Fugger ("von der Lilie") Genealogy : Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries -- The Fugger Family in Late Medieval Augsburg -- Jakob Fugger the Rich : The Making of an Enterprise, 1485-1525 -- Anton Fugger, the House of Habsburg, and the European World Economy, 1525-1560 -- Decline or Reorientation? The Fugger Firms, 1560-1650 -- Servants and Masters : The Personnel of the Fugger Companies -- Patronage and Self-Display -- The Fuggers in Sixteenth-Century Urban Society -- Citizens and Noblemen : Investment Strategies, Career Patterns, and Lifestyles.

Sommario/riassunto

Their story therefore provides a window on social mobility, cultural patronage, religion, and values during the Renaissance and the



Reformation.