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The Venetian Money Market: Banks, Panics, and the Public Debt, 1200-1500
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The Venetian Money Market: Banks, Panics, and the Public Debt, 1200-1500
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Reinhold C. Mueller
2019
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Johns Hopkins University Press
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Mellon/NEH / Hopkins Open Publishing: Encore Editions
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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.
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Cover
New Copyright
Half Title
pp. i
Series
pp. iii
Frontispiece
pp. iv
Title Page
pp. v
pp. vi
Contents
pp. vii-x
List of Illustrations
pp. xi-xii
List of Tables
pp. xiii-xv
Preface
pp. xvii-xxiv
List of Abbreviations
pp. xxv-xxvi
PART I: Local Banks and Bankers: The Institutional Side
1. From Moneychanging to Deposit Banking
pp. 3-32
2. The Supervision and Regulation of Banking
pp. 33-80
3. The Organization and Operation of Banking Enterprises
pp. 81-118
PART II: The Vagaries of Deposit Banking: A History Seen Through Panics, Bankruptcies, and Liquidations
4. Bank Failures in the Trecento
pp. 121-157
5. Bank Failures in the Quattrocento
pp. 158-229
6. The Making of the Panic of 1499–1500
pp. 230-251
PART III: The Money Market and Foreign Exchange
7. Florentine Merchant Bankers and Their Community
pp. 255-287
8. Exchange and the Money Market
pp. 288-355
PART IV: Public Debt and Private Wealth: The Floating Debt
9. The Grain Office
pp. 359-424
10. Bank Loans to the State in the Fifteenth Century
pp. 425-450
PART V: Public Debt and Private Wealth: Forced Loans and Marketable Credits
11. Venice’s Monte Vecchio
pp. 453-487
12. Criteria Employed in Assessing Patrimonies
pp. 488-515
13. Family and Finance
pp. 516-543
14. Investment by Foreigners in the Monte Vecchio
pp. 544-567
Conclusion
pp. 568-577
Appendix A. Local Deposit Bankers and Partnerships
pp. 579-583
Appendix B. Failures of Local Deposit Banks
pp. 584-586
Appendix C. Foreign Exchange in Venice during the Datini Years, 1383–1410
pp. 587-609
Appendix D. Moneys of Account Revisited
pp. 610-624
Appendix E. Foreign Investors in Venetian Credit Institutions
pp. 626-632
Appendix F. Rates of Interest on Credit Sales, 1383–1405
pp. 633-635
Appendix G. Documents
pp. 636-639
Appendix H. Genealogies of the Gaddi, Soranzo, and Priuli Families
pp. 640-646
Appendix I. The Value of Money and the Cost of Living
pp. 648-657
Appendix J. Builders’ Wages from the Late Trecento to the Early Cinquecento
pp. 658-664
Bibliography
pp. 665-691
Index
pp. 693-711
Additional Information
ISBN
9781421431444
Related ISBN(s)
9780801854378, 9781421431420, 9781421431437
DOI
10.1353/book.68456
MARC Record
OCLC
1122462284
Pages
746
Launched on MUSE
2019-10-07
Language
Open Access
Yes
Funder
Mellon/NEH / Hopkins Open Publishing: Encore Editions
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND
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