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capitalism--32252	Pirenne, Henri	The Stages in the Social History of Capitalism	nan		.txt	text/plain	10183	402	56	Moreover documents abound which attest the existence in the great cities of men of affairs who hold the most extended relations with the outside world, whoh the outside world, who export and import sacks of wool, bales of cloth, tuns of wine, by the hundred, who have under their orders a whole corps of factors or sergents (_servientes_, _valets_, etc.), whose letters of credit are negotiated in the fairs of Champagne, and who make loans amounting to several thousands of livres to princes, monasteries, and cities in need of money. But it is at the same time essentially a trading population, and no other proof of this need be advanced than the fact that, down to the beginning of the twelfth century, _mercator_ and _burgensis_ were synonymous terms.	cache/capitalism--32252.txt	txt/capitalism--32252.txt