The Medieval Super-Companies
Subtitle: A Study of the Peruzzi Company of Florence
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 9, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780521894159
Subjects: Economic history; European history: c 500 to c 1500; c 1000 CE to c 1500; History - General History; History; History: World; Italy; Corporate & Business History - General; Europe - Italy; Medieval; Business & Economics-Corporate & Business History - General; Compagnia dei Peruzzi--History; History / Europe / General; History / Medieval; History-Europe - Italy
First sentence: One of the problems in analyzing the very large medieval Italian merchant-banking organizations that are the subject of this study is that all of them bore the name of a single family that was usually in control.