The Land Commenda in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon and the Rise of a ‘Democratic’ Investment Culture
This paper presents evidence for the use of the ‘commenda’ contract as a means of investment and accumulating entrepreneurial capital in the Bages region of Catalonia during the later thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This use of a ‘land commenda’ in eastern Iberia is at present known only to a f...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2018-01-01
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| Series: | Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis |
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| Online Access: | http://www.tseg.nl/articles/10.18352/TSEG2017.3.FYN/ |