Banking Archive
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Economic Credit in Renaissance Florence
Posted on April 23, 2013 | No CommentsWhat were the social and institutional factors that led to, and reinforced, the precocious emergence of Florentine commercial capitalism, especially in the domain of international merchant banking? -
Lodovico Capponi: A Florentine Banker and a Lending Transaction in 16th Century Florence
Posted on April 1, 2013 | No CommentsThis paper examines how loans transpired in early 16th century Italy, taking a look at a specific transaction involving Lodovico Capponi of Florence and the Vatican in Rome. -
CRISIS OF CONTRACTS FOR MERCHANTS IN CRISIS: INSTITUTIONS, CORPORATE FINANCE AND GROWTH IN GENOA (11TH -17TH C.)
Posted on January 13, 2013 | No CommentsMy paper focuses these “merchant princes” from Genoa before the “industrial revolution”. The rise and fall of Genoa provides indeed a striking case about the success and failure of what, in the same vein than Bagehot, Joseph Schumpeter called the “creative destruction”, and the role financial markets in that process. -
Religion, Warfare and Business in Fifteenth Century Rhodes
Posted on October 25, 2012 | No CommentsHow did a military-monastic order manage the resources of an island commercially asimportant as that of Rhodes while overcoming the limitations due to its patrimonial struc-tureto cover their defensive needs? In this essay weattempt to answer this question interms of practice and in the light of relationsthatthe Knights maintained with two distinctgroups of merchants: the Catalan-Aragonese and the Florentines. -
A Tale of “Benevolent” Governments: Private Credit Markets, Public Finance, and the Role of Jewish Lenders in Medieval and Renaissance Italy
Posted on August 13, 2012 | No CommentsIn Tuscan private credit markets, Jewish lending helped households to smooth consumption, buy working capital, and provide dowries for daughters. -
15th century Italian banking records discovered in London manuscript
Posted on July 24, 2012 | No CommentsRecords of Italian bankers partially covered over fifty years later by traditional English crests -
Economy of Ragusa, 1300 – 1800: The Tiger of Mediaeval Mediterranean
Posted on July 24, 2012 | No CommentsAn economist is indeed tempted to think of Ragusa as the “Adriatic Tiger “ of yesteryear, an early example of a small open economy with strong fundamentals, and to hypothesize further that, in analogy to the current consensus about what it takes to minimize the impact of external crises, these strengths also allowed Ragusa to mitigate the effects of the many external shocks and financial crises in Medieval Europe. -
The politics of factional conflict in late medieval Flanders
Posted on February 10, 2012 | No CommentsIn his influential study on political factions in medieval Europe, Jacques Heers demonstrated the importance of factionalism in the political life of the middle ages, at the level of cities and regions as well as at the ‘national’ level. -
The Social Stratigraphy of Coin and Credit in Late Medieval England
Posted on January 29, 2012 | No CommentsThe money that the medieval English made conducted matters of state into the heart of society. The concerted quality of value – the fact that creating a currency connected public authority with every individual holding it – made that unavoidable. -
The evolutionary dynamics of the credit relationship between Henry III and Flemish merchants, 1247-1270
Posted on December 13, 2011 | No CommentsWithin England, the royal household was by far the biggest single customer for cloth, wax and other high-status goods. -
Medieval Market Design: Product Grouping on Medieval Fairs
Posted on October 23, 2011 | No CommentsMedieval Market Design: Product Grouping on Medieval Fairs Boerner, Lars (Humboldt University Berlin) Paper given at the European Historical Economics Society Conference (2005) Abstract This paper presents insights into the... -
Early medieval port customs, tolls and controls on foreign trade
Posted on October 10, 2011 | No CommentsEarly medieval port customs, tolls and controls on foreign trade Middleton, Neil Early Medieval Europe, Vol.13:4 (2005) Abstract The objective of this paper is to offer a fresh perspective on the... -
The State as an Enforcer in Early Venetian Trade: a Historical Institutional Analysis
Posted on October 9, 2011 | No CommentsThe State as an Enforcer in Early Venetian Trade: a Historical Institutional Analysis González de Lara, Yadira (Dep. of Economic Analysis. University of Alicante) Paper given at the Fifth World Congress of... -
The Medici Bank and the World of Florentine Capitalism
Posted on July 28, 2011 | No CommentsThe Medici Bank and the World of Florentine Capitalism By Richard A. Goldthwaite Past and Present, No. 114 (1987) Introduction: The old debate about the vigour of the spirit of... -
Pope Eugenius IV and Jewish Money-Lending in Florence: The Case of Salomone di Bonaventura during the Chancellorship of Leonardo Bruni
Posted on July 28, 2011 | No CommentsPope Eugenius IV and Jewish Money-Lending in Florence: The Case of Salomone di Bonaventura during the Chancellorship of Leonardo Bruni By Andrew Gow and Gordon Griffiths Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 47,... -
The Baltic – from European Sea of Troubles to Global Interface
Posted on July 23, 2011 | No CommentsThe Baltic – from European Sea of Troubles to Global Interface Blomkvist, Nils Professor, Medieval History, Gotland University Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table, Vol.2007 (2007) Abstract... -
The Baltic – from European Sea of Troubles to Global Interface
Posted on July 23, 2011 | No CommentsThe Baltic – from European Sea of Troubles to Global Interface Blomkvist, Nils Professor, Medieval History, Gotland University Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table, Vol.2007 (2007) Abstract... -
Funduq, Fondaco, and Khan in the Wake of Christian Commerce and Crusade
Posted on July 21, 2011 | No CommentsFunduq, Fondaco, and Khan in the Wake of Christian Commerce and Crusade Olivia Remie, Constable The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and... -
AN ENQUIRY INTO THE CHARGES AND MOTIVATIONS OF THE CAPETIAN MONARCHY BEHIND INSTITUTING THE FALL OF THE ORDER OF THE TEMPLE
Posted on June 26, 2011 | No CommentsAN ENQUIRY INTO THE CHARGES AND MOTIVATIONS OF THE CAPETIAN MONARCHY BEHINDINSTITUTING THE FALL OF THE ORDER OF THE TEMPLE Singhal, Chetan The Concord Review, Vol. 21:4 (2011) Abstract The Templars were... -
Commercial relations between the Basque Provinces and England in the Later Middle Ages, c.1200-c.1500
Posted on June 5, 2011 | No CommentsCommercial relations between the Basque Provinces and England in the Later Middle Ages, c.1200-c.1500 Childs, Wendy R. (University of Leeds) Itsas Memoria: Revista de Estudios Maritimos de Pais Vasco, 4 (2003)... -
The Resolution of Commercial Conflicts in Bruges, Antwerp, and Amsterdam (1250-1650)
Posted on May 29, 2011 | No CommentsThe Resolution of Commercial Conflicts in Bruges, Antwerp, and Amsterdam (1250-1650) Gelderblom, Oscar (Utrecht University) Merchants in the Low Countries: The Organization of Long-Distance Trade in Bruges, Antwerp, and Amsterdam (1250-1650) (2008)... -
The Secret Of Venetian Success: The Role Of The State In Financial Markets
Posted on May 22, 2011 | No CommentsThe Secret Of Venetian Success: The Role Of The State In Financial Markets González de Lara, Yadira (Universidad de Alicante, Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económic) Editor: Instituto Valenciano de... -
PAYMENTS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF FINANCE IN PRE-INDUSTRIAL EUROPE
Posted on May 8, 2011 | No CommentsPAYMENTS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF FINANCE IN PRE-INDUSTRIAL EUROPE Kohn, Meir Working Paper, Department of Economics, Dartmouth College, November (2001) Abstract The principal driving force in the development of the financial system...
