出版社：Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
摘要：The purpose of this paper is to present some key aspects of the learning of the merchant’s trade that appear closely linked in various mediaeval merchants’ manuals. With very illustrative titles, their aim was to produce able merchants deserving of success. For that purpose, they provided rigorous and necessary mercantile information, they demonstrated techniques that were considered essential and they also presented a set of precepts, rules and recommendations relative to attitudes and behaviour, which should and could be learnt. Putting all this into practice would assist the emerging merchant class in obtaining the benevolence of society and their definitive social redemption, while reinforcing their coherence as a group. Mentioned among these merchants’ manuals is a brief fragment from a hitherto unknown Portuguese manual for merchants, on which there is still work to be done.
关键词：mediaeval merchants’ manuals;merchant training;technical abilities;values;behaviour patterns;coherence as a group;manuales de mercaduría medievales;formación mercantil;habilidades técnicas;valores;pautas de comportamiento;coherencia grupal
