Små historiska fakta som kan vara intressanta i rollspel

JohanL

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Dräper någon Nemedisk man eller koth, en man från
konungariket, men ej Aquilonisk, böte därför åtta örtugar
och tretton marker men ingen ättebot. Nio marker äger
konungen av mandråp och likaså alla män.
I RuneQuest är din lösen/mansbot (samma sak!) något som står på rollformuläret, och beror på yrke och social rang.

Det mest typiska är 500 silvermynt (eller som en normal person säger, 20 kor).

Lägst mansbot bland yrkena har filosofer. Inte så stor förlust, liksom. :)

Självklart utgår det inte när man slår ihjäl någon fredlös, det är ju hela poängen! Eller någon utlänning som är så långt hemifrån att hans samhälle inte har något att komma med och inte heller har någons beskydd. De som följer dödsguden betalar aldrig mansbot för dem de slår ihjäl, och om någon vill hämnas... "bring it!"
 

Gamiel

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Två författar intervjuer med samma författare rörande samma bok om stillahavshandeln under 1600-1800-talen, men från två perspektiv (ekonomisk historia o asiatisk historia):
Juan José Rivas Moreno, "The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) - New Books Network
"Many authors have written about the Manila Galleons, the massive ships that took goods back and forth between Acapulco and Manila, ferrying silver one way, and Chinese-made goods the other.

But how did the Galleons actually work? Who paid for them? How did buyers and sellers negotiate with each other? Who set the rules? Why on earth did the shippers decide to send just one galleon a year?

Juan José Rivas Moreno dives into these questions in his book The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838: Institutions and Trade during the First Globalization (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).

Juan José Rivas Moreno is a historian of early modern finance, specialising in the financing of the Pacific trade. He obtained his PhD in Economic History from London School of Economics in 2023 with a thesis on the capital market of Manila which received the Coleman Prize 2024. Juan José was the recipient of a Newberry Library short-term fellowship and held an Economic History Society Fellowship in 2023-2024. Currently he is a Max Weber fellow at the European University Institute in Florence."


Juan José Rivas Moreno, "The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) - New Books Network
"Economic history has always emphasized the importance of long-distance trade in the emergence of modern financial markets, yet almost nothing is known about the Manila trade. The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) offers the first reconstruction of the capital market of Manila using new archival sources that have never been used in the economic history of Pacific trade.

The book explains how trade between Asia and Spanish America across the Pacific, which lasted for 250 years (1571 – 1815) was financed from the city of Manila.The book analyses the political economy and institutional structures of the Manila capital market in the context of the global silver trade, as well as addressing key similarities and differences with European trade routes and differing approaches to colonialism and commerce in Asian waters. It traces how the Manila capital market emerged in a bottom-up process with a redistributive aspect that tied the interests of citizens with the fortunes of trade, using institutions familiar to the public like legacy funds, brotherhoods and lay religious orders to pool liquidity, originate working capital, and internalise the risk of loss at sea. It challenges the notion that there is a normative model for the development of capital markets and introduces an industrial organisation analysis to the broader structure of Early Modern trade in the Spanish Empire. Sitting at the intersection of economic and financial history, global history, imperial history and political economy, this book will be a cutting-edge and valuable resource for a broad range of scholars:"
 
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