It may seem like a recent trend, but businesses have been practising compassionate capitalism for nearly a thousand years.
Based on the newly discovered historical documents on Cambridge’s sophisticated urban property market during the Commercial Revolution in the thirteenth century, this book explores how successful entrepreneurs employed the wealth they had accumulated to the benefit of the community.
Cutting across disciplines, from economic and business history to entrepreneurship, philanthropy and medieval studies, this outstanding volume presents an invaluable contribution to our knowledge of the early phases of capitalism.
A companion book, The Cambridge Hundred Rolls Sources Volume, replacing the previous incomplete and inaccurate transcription by the Record Commission of 1818, is also available from Bristol University Press.
Table of Content
Introduction
Dynamics of the Property Market
Economic Topography
Family Profiles
Family Dynasties
Cambridge and its Regional Environment
Legacy: Cambridge in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
Conclusion
About the author
Katie Phillips is an AHRC-funded Ph D student in Medieval Studies at the University of Reading.
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