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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Main Author: Jeff Fynn-Paul
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: openjournals.nl 2018-01-01
Series:Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis
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Online Access:https://tseg.nl/article/view/8212