Monetary and Non-Monetary Payment Systems

Giuseppe De Luca is Professor of economic history at the University of Milan, Italy. He has published several books and many journal articles in the areas of financial and economic history, infrastructure financing, and economic growth. He is also Honorary Professor at The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London, and Associate to the National Research Council of Italy, Institute of History of Mediterranean Europe (ISEM). Marina Romani is Associate Professor of Economic History at the University of Genoa, Italy. She specializes in financial history during the early modern period, Jewish history, and historical demography.

• .- 1. Introduction, Giuseppe De Luca and Marina Romani.- 2. The Gold Florin of Florence in the Age of Dante: Beyond the Macroeconomic Paradigm, Stefano Locatelli (University of Milan).- 3. Microcredit and Monetary Circulation in the 14th Century, Luciano Maffi (University of Parma) and Antonio Olivieri (University of Turin).- 4. Luxury goods and their esteem: Lombardy, 15th century, Maria Nadia Covini (University of Milan).- 5. Neither pledge nor cash: The role of money-equivalent goods in the Renaissance Venetian credit market, Rachele Scuro (University of Venice).- 6. The Fiduciary Value of Money and the Rationalization of the European Violence, Giacomo Todeschini (University of Trieste).- 7. A Virtual Currency Before the Virtual Currencies: The Exchange Fairs' International Money in Renaissance Europe, Tommaso Brollo and Giuseppe De Luca (University of Milan).- 8. It Is a Misfortune That We Describe Money by a Noun … Monetary Practices in the Ancient Regime between History and Economics (15th-17th Centuries), Marina Romani (University of Genoa).- 9. TBD, D’Maris Coffman, University College London.- 10. Money of account and Money of exchange: The role of silk cocoons at the origin of Italian capitalism (18th-19th Centuries), Lorenzo Avellino (University of Geneve).- 11. A Restricted sovereignty. Colonial currencies and the Maria Theresa Empress’s thaler in Eritrea and Ethiopia, Gian Luca Podestà (University of Parma).- 12. Monetary plurality and Empire: Some Theoretical thoughts on French Pondicherry after the Seven Years War, Juliette Françoise (Université de Genève, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne).