Venetian Money Market

Banks, Panics, and the Public Debt, 1200-1500

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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The long awaited conclusion to the magisterial Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice.Originally published in 1997. In 1985 Frederic C. Lane and Reinhold C. Mueller published the magisterial Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice, volume 1: Coins and Moneys of Account. Now, after ten years of further research and writing, Reinhold Mueller completes the work that he and the late Frederic Lane began. The history of money and banking in Venice is crucial to an understanding of European economic history. Because of its strategic location between East and West, Venice rapidly rose to a position of preeminence in Mediterranean trade. To keep trade moving from London to Constantinople and beyond, Venetian merchants and bankers created specialized financial institutions to serve private entrepreneurs and public administrators: deposit banks, foreign exchange banks, a grain office, and a bureau of the public debt. This new book clarifies Venice's pivotal role in Italian and international banking and finance. It also sets banking—and panics—in the context of more generalized and recurrent crises involving territorial wars, competition for markets, and debates over interest rates and the question of usury.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-01-26
Mått152 x 229 x 42 mm
Vikt1 081 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor746
FörlagJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN9781421431437

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List of Illustrations List of Tables Preface List of AbbreviationsPart I. Local Banks and Bankers: The Institutional Side Chapter 1. From Moneychanging to Deposit Banking Chapter 2. The Supervision and Regulation of Banking Chapter 3. The Organization and Operation of Banking Enterprises Part II. The Vagaries of Deposit Banking: A History Seen Through Panics, Bankruptcies, and Liquidations Chapter 4. Bank Failures in the Trecento Chapter 5. Bank Failures in the Quattrocento Chapter 6. The Making of the Panic of 1499-1500 Part III. The Money Market and Foreign Exchange Chapter 7. Florentine Merchant Bankers and Their Community Chapter 8. Exchange and the Money Market Part IV. Public Debt and Private Wealth: The Floating Debt Chapter 9. The Grain Office: A "Swiss Bank" for the Nest Eggs ofTerraferma Lords, a Quasi-Public Bank for VenetiansChapter 10. Bank Loans to the State in the Fifteenth Century Part V. Public Debt and Private Wealth: Forced Loans and Marketable Credits Chapter 11. Venice's Monte Vecchio: An Overview Chapter 12. Criteria Employed in Assessing Patrimonies Chapter 13. Family and Finance: Forced Loans and the Open Market at WorkConclusionAppendixesBibliographyIndex

This is the kind of book that is all too rare in modern historical scholarship. It is at once meticulously researched, granitically organized, perceptively argued, and eminently readable. The last is no mean achievement when one considers the subject matter. Banks, investments, credit, and debt may be important for our understanding of medieval and Renaissance Italy, but as anyone who has balanced a checkbook or read an annuity report can attest, it can all be dreadfully boring. Not so here.—Thomas FMadden, Sixteenth Century Journal