Medievalists.net » Banking http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Did Purchasing Power Parity Hold in Medieval Europe? http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/04/purchasing-power-parity-hold-medieval-europe/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/04/purchasing-power-parity-hold-medieval-europe/#comments Mon, 04 Aug 2014 08:22:52 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51577 This paper employs a unique, hand-collected dataset of exchange rates for five major currencies (the lira of Barcelona, the pound sterling of England, the pond groot of Flanders, the florin of Florence and the livre tournois of France) to consider whether the law of one price and purchasing power parity held in Europe during the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/15/book-italians/feed/ 0 Notarial Convention in the Facilitation of Trade and Economics in Mid-Thirteenth Century Marseille http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/22/notarial-convention-facilitation-trade-economics-mid-thirteenth-century-marseille/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/22/notarial-convention-facilitation-trade-economics-mid-thirteenth-century-marseille/#comments Sat, 22 Feb 2014 18:24:42 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=47797 This paper examines Marseillaise notarial documents of 1248 from the cartulary of Girauld Amalric. Amalric’s cartulary demonstrates how notarial techniques and related legal conventions facilitated Marseille’s long- and short-distance trade.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/22/notarial-convention-facilitation-trade-economics-mid-thirteenth-century-marseille/feed/ 0 Economic Credit in Renaissance Florence http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/23/economic-credit-in-renaissance-florence/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/23/economic-credit-in-renaissance-florence/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2013 01:07:42 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=40731 What 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?

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/23/economic-credit-in-renaissance-florence/feed/ 0 Lodovico Capponi: A Florentine Banker and a Lending Transaction in 16th Century Florence http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/01/lodovico-capponi-a-florentine-banker-and-a-lending-transaction-in-16th-century-florence/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/01/lodovico-capponi-a-florentine-banker-and-a-lending-transaction-in-16th-century-florence/#comments Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:43:45 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=40226 This 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/01/lodovico-capponi-a-florentine-banker-and-a-lending-transaction-in-16th-century-florence/feed/ 0 CRISIS OF CONTRACTS FOR MERCHANTS IN CRISIS: INSTITUTIONS, CORPORATE FINANCE AND GROWTH IN GENOA (11TH -17TH C.) http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/13/crisis-of-contracts-for-merchants-in-crisis-institutions-corporate-finance-and-growth-in-genoa-11th-17th-c/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/13/crisis-of-contracts-for-merchants-in-crisis-institutions-corporate-finance-and-growth-in-genoa-11th-17th-c/#comments Sun, 13 Jan 2013 19:11:52 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=38685 My 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/13/crisis-of-contracts-for-merchants-in-crisis-institutions-corporate-finance-and-growth-in-genoa-11th-17th-c/feed/ 0 Religion, Warfare and Business in Fifteenth Century Rhodes http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/25/religion-warfare-and-business-in-fifteenth-century-rhodes/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/25/religion-warfare-and-business-in-fifteenth-century-rhodes/#comments Thu, 25 Oct 2012 06:38:49 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36689 How 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/25/religion-warfare-and-business-in-fifteenth-century-rhodes/feed/ 0 A Tale of “Benevolent” Governments: Private Credit Markets, Public Finance, and the Role of Jewish Lenders in Medieval and Renaissance Italy http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/13/a-tale-of-benevolent-governments-private-credit-markets-public-finance-and-the-role-of-jewish-lenders-in-medieval-and-renaissance-italy/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/13/a-tale-of-benevolent-governments-private-credit-markets-public-finance-and-the-role-of-jewish-lenders-in-medieval-and-renaissance-italy/#comments Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:09:15 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=34721 In Tuscan private credit markets, Jewish lending helped households to smooth consumption, buy working capital, and provide dowries for daughters.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/13/a-tale-of-benevolent-governments-private-credit-markets-public-finance-and-the-role-of-jewish-lenders-in-medieval-and-renaissance-italy/feed/ 0 15th century Italian banking records discovered in London manuscript http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/24/15th-century-italian-banking-records-discovered-in-london-manuscript/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/24/15th-century-italian-banking-records-discovered-in-london-manuscript/#comments Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:15:45 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=34132 Records of Italian bankers partially covered over fifty years later by traditional English crests

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/24/15th-century-italian-banking-records-discovered-in-london-manuscript/feed/ 0 Economy of Ragusa, 1300 – 1800: The Tiger of Mediaeval Mediterranean http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/24/economy-of-ragusa-1300-1800-the-tiger-of-mediaeval-mediterranean/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/24/economy-of-ragusa-1300-1800-the-tiger-of-mediaeval-mediterranean/#comments Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:15:52 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=34126 An 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.

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