Endemann

Endemann, however, in spite of his colossal research and unrivalled acquaintance with original authorities, was essentially hostile to the system which he undertook to explain, and thus lacked the most essential quality of a satisfactory expositor, namely, sympathy with his subject.

An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching George O'Brien

Endemann, for instance, devotes a great part of his invaluable books on the subject to demonstrating how impracticable the canonist teaching was when it was applied to real life, and recounting the casuistical devices that were resorted to in order to reconcile the teaching of the Church with the accepted mercantile customs of the time.

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Dr. Cunningham's estimate of its importance, 27. its impracticability demonstrated by Endemann, 20. value of the study of, 29.

An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching George O'Brien

Endemann, having thoroughly studied all the fifteenth-century writers on the subject, says that commerce might be rendered unjustifiable either by subjective or objective reasons.

An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching George O'Brien

Endemann treats this subject very fully and ably; [1] but for the purpose of the present essay it is not necessary to do more than to state the main conclusions at which he arrives.

An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching George O'Brien

Even Endemann says: 'The teaching of the canon law presents a noble edifice not less splendid in its methods than in its results.

An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching George O'Brien

The Reformed divine, Endemann of Marburg, closes the series of Reformed moralists (1780), but he bears the distinctively Reformed character only in very feeble traits.

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This is not the place to discuss how far the doctrine of the late fifteenth differed from that of the early thirteenth century; that is a matter which will appear below when each of the leading principles of scholastic economic teaching is separately considered; it is sufficient to say here that we agree entirely with Brants, in opposition to Endemann, that the change which took place in the interval was one of development, and not of opposition.

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_Lucrum cessans_ was defined by Navarrus as 'amissio facta a creditore per pecuniam sibi non redditam' (Endemann, _Studien_, vol.ii. p. 279).]

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He then goes on to state the very important principle, that in _cambium_ money is not to be considered a measure of value, but a vendible commodity, [1] a distinction which Endemann thinks was productive of very important results in the later teaching on the subject. [

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