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This chapter surveys the writings of medieval Jewish rabbis on usury during 1050-1565. These writings belonged to three … literary genres: legal, ethical/pietistic, and Biblical commentary. After surveying the moralistic condemnations of usury by …-ritualistic. I provide examples of rabbinically-sanctioned circumventions of the usury ban via a Gentile intermediary, and new …
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The study explores the narrative structure of Alexandr Nikitenko's diary, one of the core sources for the history of Russian censorship, and on the role of the genre of anecdote in particular. Through an analysis of the ‘anecdotal' entries about censorship in Nikitenko's diary and their...
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Seventeenth-century England was the site of a profound transformation of early economic thought. The amount of works published increased rapidly and the works became less concerned with morality and scripture and more concerned with national prosperity and empirical evidence. We show that the...
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