id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 32252 Pirenne, Henri The Stages in the Social History of Capitalism .txt text/plain 10173 495 61 period preceding the middle of the eleventh century, we know too little period was sufficient to create gathering-places of merchants at the of commerce begins to furnish men with new means of existence. merchant coming from the country to establish himself in the town. commerce of the eleventh and twelfth centuries to that bloody In the first place, down to the end of the twelfth century, the number In the second place, at the period we have now reached the towns devoted thirteenth century we find a period of free capitalistic expansion. In the course of the fifteenth century this second class of capitalists, the same time that is sets commerce and industry free from the by the capitalists of the late Middle Ages in a class of new men. the twelfth century, so mercantilism imposed itself upon commerce and that commerce which in the beginning made their fortunes. ./cache/32252.txt ./txt/32252.txt