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The aim of this paper is to cast new light on the textual constitution of some passages of Apuleius. For ca. 15 passages of Florida as well as for 5 passages of Apologia a new textual solution is proposed.

This paper discusses the uses and functions of hereditary leases (roughly speaking: copyhold possession of urban real estate whereby a personal dependency of the lessee to the lessor was established), especially in Strasbourg and Würzburg. It also examines the annuity markets (annuities are defined as hypothecary credit based on freehold urban real estate, without any personal bonds between the seller and the buyer) of several cities of the German Hanse, particularly Hamburg, in the Late Middle Ages. At the same time, it attempts to refute G. Signori's critique of the basic premises of an extended research project on these annuity markets initiated by R. Sprandel in the late 1960s. The paper emphasizes the legal basis of annuities (freehold possession of land), the streamlined formalities of buying and selling annuities, and the sheer number of annuity contracts in Hamburg and other Hanse cities. This means they can be regarded as both true commercial credit instruments and as reliable indicators of economic cycles.

Economic historians began to think about the paradigm of resilience after the banking and financial crisis of 2007. In this context this paper would like to develop an initial model of resiliencing or resilience management in history which shall be put up for discussion. Thereby, the following questions should be answered: How can an enterprise be made resilient? And how can resilience management be analysed in a business historical or microeconomic context? Afterwards, this model will be screened based on some preliminary empirical indications extracted from the business history of the 16th century. Finally, the importance of the analysis of resilience management for business history and for the historical sciences in general will be discussed. But first, the way from resilience to resilience management will be explained in a few steps.