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2024
Money exchange contracts were at the core of late-scholastic teaching and writing in Spain during the sixteenth century. Any contract of money for money was known as cambios. Under this heading, merchants and theologians articulated how they viewed money a ...
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2022
The rise of finance casts a long shadow in Iberian print culture. Mathematicians and businessmen understood credit as a matrix of equations that could establish either the fluid functioning of genuine exchange or open a threshold into the realm of the sens ...
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March 4, 2019
Paying critical attention to reckoning, accounting, and managing gives us the opportunity to examine how numeracy and the logic of calculation operates on and off the stage. The stage exists as a matrix of figures where numbers imbue the dramatic form, med ...
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2019
Early Modern Spanish society lived in a world saturated with all kinds of business and concerns about money. Everyone adopted habits of thought associated trade. Profit and loss became the language for assessing material, social, private, and spiritual mat ...
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June 1, 2015
In this volume, experts on the Spanish Golden Age from the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the United States offer analyses of contemporary works that have been influenced by the classics from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. ...
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