La formación de compañías comerciales en Salamanca en el siglo XVI

Abstract

This paper tries to reconstitute the conditions for the foundation of the trading companies in the city of Salamanca (northwest of Spain). It studies the socio-professional category of the associates, their functions, their money contributions, the duration of the company and its geographical area of action. It’ll also delineate the distinctive features or possible parallelisms with others Spanish societies and it’ll try to verify some affirmations about the commercial activity of Salamanca during the Sixteenth Century. This article supposes a contribution to a subject scarcely studied for this century and for the interior places of the Iberian Peninsula.