Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/309524 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Citation: 
[Journal:] Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte (VSWG) [ISSN:] 2365-2136 [Volume:] 111 [Issue:] 4 [Year:] 2024 [Pages:] 428-460
Publisher: 
Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart
Abstract (Translated): 
Using two household account books, this article analyses the family and staff, travel, consumption and flamboyance of the merchant-aristocratic household of the Loitz family in the 1570s. In 1572, the merchant-bankers Loitz, who had been highly successful in international trade and finance from Szczecin, Gda´nsk and Lüneburg for decades, had to overcome a drastic illiquidity crisis. Afterwards, they largely maintained the standard of living of a wealthy merchant or lower nobility, so that the decline of entrepreneurial activity did not lead to a fall in social standing for the entire family. The article also provides in-depth insights into the economic history of the Polish-Prussian region, characterized by agrarian farming, the grain and salt trades, and the persistence of the aristocracy.
Subjects: 
trade history
Loitz merchant family
Baltic Sea region
business history
manorial economy
JEL: 
N23
N73
N83
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Article

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