Ebook: Merkantiles Erzählen – Von Kauf und Verkauf in mittelhochdeutscher Literatur

The aim of looking at Middle High German market scenes is to free the analysis of mercantile practices in premodern narrative literature from teleological economic historiography and to instead investigate the semantic potential of the mercantile space on the basis of the functionality of its practices. This volume examines the literary negotiation of mercantile conventions by looking at a number of examples from the thirteenth century.