Family Firms and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe: The Business, Bankruptcy, and Resilience of the Höchstetters of Augsburg. By Thomas Max Safley. Routledge Explorations in Economic History. Edited by Lars Magnusson. London: Routledge, 2020. Pp. xii+288. $140.00 (cloth); $49.95 (e-book).

2021 ◽  
Vol 93 (3) ◽  
pp. 718-719
Author(s):  
Tom Scott
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Family Firms ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Modern Europe ◽  
Merchant Capitalism

Theresa Earenfight, ed., Royal and Elite Households in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: More than Just a Castle. Explorations in Medieval Culture 6. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018. 416 pp.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 251-251
Author(s):  
Charlotte A. Stanford
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Modern Europe

This collection of sixteen essays examines the households of royal and aristocratic figures from the ninth through sixteenth centuries in Western Europe. Based on a variety of sources, ranging from economic records to letters, wills, legal charters, and inventories, the studies in this volume showcase the complexity of great households with their large cast of characters. While length restrictions make detailed discussion of individual essays impractical here, the different contributions complement each other along several thematic strands, notably court studies, economic history, and especially gender studies. Nine contributors focus on female households (Megan Welton, Penelope Nash, Linda E. Mitchell, Eileen Kim, Sally Fisher, Caroline Dunn, Manuela Santos Silva, Zita Rohr, and Theresa Earenfight), five on primarily male households (David McDermott, Alexander Brondarbit, Alana Lord, Audrey M. Thorstad, and Hélder Carvalhal), and one deals equally with the households of a king and queen (Isabel de Pina Baleiras). Many of the contributors focus on English material, although several essays give insights on France, Germany, Italy and the Iberian Peninsula.

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