Medieval Cities by Pirenne Henri McCormick Michael

Author:Pirenne, Henri, McCormick, Michael
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014-07-28T16:00:00+00:00

1 “Sic itaque puerilibus annis simpliciter domi transactis, caepit adolescentior prudentiores vitae vias excolere et documenta secularis providentiae sollicite et exercitate perdicere. Unde non agriculturae delegit exercitia colere, sed potius quae sagacioris animi sunt rudimenta studuit, arrripiendo exercere. Hinc est quod mercatoris aemulatus studium, coepit mercimonii frequentare negotium, et primitus in minoribus quidem et rebus pretii inferioris, coepit lucrandi officia discere; postmodum vero paulatim ad majoris pretii emolumenta adolescentiae suae ingenia promovere.” Libellus de Vita S. Godrici, p. 25.

2 We even find a similar organization in Dalmatia. See C. Jirecek, “Die Bedeutung von Raguza in der Handelsgeschichte des Mittelalters,” Almanak der Akademie der Wissenschaften, in Wien, 1899, p. 382.

3 “The Life of Saint Guidon of Anderlecht,” Acta Sanctorum, Vol. IV, p. 42, speaks of the “ignobilis mercatura” and calls a merchant who advised the saint to apply himself to it a “diaboli minister.”

4 An example of the conversion of a merchant quite analogous to that of Godric and at the same epoch is given by the “Vita Theogeri,” Monumenta Germaniae historica, Vol. XII, p. 457.

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