Le marchand et les poids et mesures
Jean-Claude Hocquet
Published in French this Variorum volume, these chapters represent over twenty years of scholarship and publication. Many have been updated translated from German Italian into for the first time. The all deal with merchants, whom author is a world-renowned specialist, their use local weights measures during Middle Ages modern period. reader taken on journey Carolingian Empire to pre-Columbian Mexico post-colonial Java or Madagascar, ancient Rome aluminium can 21st century. As has specialised history salt saltworks sea, book also makes room springs, fish fishing ports northern Europe, finally scholarly investigation leads food, bread cereals. expands earlier survey published series, which dealt mainly Venice salt, was very well received by educated public, who still wonder how people overcame chaos old measures. revolution 1789 put an end situation inventing metre decimal system.