The rhetoric of credit merchants in early modern writing

Machine generated contents note: Preface 7 --1. Introduction 11 -- 2. The Commodity of Credit: Double Entry and the -- Merchant's Word 23 -- Forms of Credit 23 -- Merchant Handbooks' Advice 26 -- 3. The Theology of Credit: Risk and Opportunity Cost 44 -- Theology of Usury 44 -- Image of Cr...

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1. Verfasser: Sullivan, Ceri (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Madison, NJ u.a. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press u.a. c 2002
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Zusammenfassung:Machine generated contents note: Preface 7 --1. Introduction 11 -- 2. The Commodity of Credit: Double Entry and the -- Merchant's Word 23 -- Forms of Credit 23 -- Merchant Handbooks' Advice 26 -- 3. The Theology of Credit: Risk and Opportunity Cost 44 -- Theology of Usury 44 -- Image of Credit 53 -- Real Risk: Bankrupts and Sovereign Debt 61 -- 4. The Credit of Cash 71 -- Esteem of Cash 71 -- Imaginary Monies 78 -- Abased Coin 80 -- Misers and Hard Cash 84 -- 5. If You Know Not Me (2) and Commercial Revue 87 -- 6. The Alchemist and the Art of Adequation 108 -- 7. Eastward Ho! and Social Catachresis 122 -- 8. Afterword 140 --Notes 141 -- Bibliography 191 -- Index 212
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-211) and index
Beschreibung:217 S.
Ill.
24 cm
ISBN:0838639267
0-8386-3926-7