000 03169naaaa2200469uu 4500
001 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/112064
005 20260216164821.0
003 oapen
006 m o d
007 cr|mn|---annan
008 20230808s2023 xx |||||o ||| 0|eng d
020 _a979-12-215-0092-9.06
020 _a9791221500929
040 _aoapen
_coapen
024 7 _a10.36253/979-12-215-0092-9.06
_cdoi
041 0 _aeng
042 _adc
072 7 _aJHB
_2bicssc
100 1 _aDanna, Raffaele
_4auth
245 1 0 _aChapter The spread of Hindu-Arabic numerals among practitioners in Italy and England (13th-16th c.): two moments of a European innovation cycle?
260 _aFlorence
_bFirenze University Press
_c2023
300 _a1 electronic resource (29 p.)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aDatini Studies in Economic History
506 0 _aOpen Access
_2star
_fUnrestricted online access
520 _aTogether with introducing a set of key innovations in commercial practices, the merchant-bankers of the commercial revolution of the 13th century were also the first European economic agents to adopt Hindu-Arabic numerals. As practical arithmetic provided the mathematical foundation for commercial innovations, studying its European spread provides a particularly suitable angle to study the diffusion of practical knowledge in the pre-modern period. Italy was the early adopter of these techniques, while in England these practices became widespread at the onset of the little divergence. In this paper, I discuss in comparative perspective the social diffusion of this knowledge in Italy and England, and its wider impact. On the one hand, this analysis makes it possible to show a number of parallels between the trajectories followed by these societies. On the other hand, it allows to observe the complex interactions between practical knowledge and wider economic, institutional, and social changes.
540 _aCreative Commons
_fhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
_2cc
_4https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
546 _aEnglish
650 7 _aSociology
_2bicssc
653 _aKnowledge diffusion
653 _alearning
653 _aeconomic growth
653 _acommercial revolution
653 _alittle divergence
653 _athema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
773 1 0 _7nnaa
_oOAPEN Library UUID: L’economia della conoscenza: innovazione, produttività e crescita economica nei secoli XIII-XVIII / The knowledge economy: innovation, productivity and economic growth, 13th to 18th century
856 4 0 _awww.oapen.org
_uhttps://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/74819/1/9791221500929-06.pdf
_70
_zDOAB: download the publication
856 4 0 _awww.oapen.org
_uhttps://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/74819/1/9791221500929-06.pdf
_70
_zDOAB: download the publication
856 4 0 _awww.oapen.org
_uhttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/112064
_70
_zDOAB: description of the publication
999 _c437
_d437