The Venetian Money Market : Banks, Panics, and the Public Debt, 1200-1500 / / Reinhold C. Mueller.

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. No...

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Place / Publishing House:Baltimore : : Johns Hopkins University Press,, 1997.
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Year of Publication:2019
1997
Language:English
Series:Money and banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice ; v. 2.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxvi, 711 pages :); illustrations ;
Notes:"This book ... is the second volume of the work originally planned by Frederic C. Lane and myself entitled 'Money and banking in medieval and Renaissance Venice.' The first volume, 'Coins and Moneys of account, ' coauthored by Lane and Mueller, was published in 1985."
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. From Moneychanging to Deposit Banking
  • 2. The Supervision and Regulation of Banking
  • 3. The Organization and Operation of Banking Enterprises
  • 4. Bank Failures in the Trecento
  • 5. Bank Failures in the Quattrocento
  • 6. The Making of the Panic of 1499-1500
  • 7. Florentine Merchant Bankers and Their Community
  • 8. Exchange and the Money Market
  • 9. The Grain Office: A "Swiss Bank" for the Nest Eggs of Terraferma Lords, a Quasi-Public Bank for Venetians
  • 10. Bank Loans to the State in the Fifteenth Century
  • 11. Venice's Monte Vecchio: An Overview
  • 12. Criteria Employed in Assessing Patrimonies
  • 13. Family and Finance: Forced Loans and the Open Market at Work
  • 14. Investment by Foreigners in the Monte Vecchio
  • A. Local Deposit Bankers and Partnerships
  • B. Failures of Local Deposit Banks
  • C. Foreign Exchange in Venice during the Datini Years, 1383-1410
  • D. Moneys of Account Revisited
  • E. Foreign Investors in Venetian Credit Institutions
  • F. Rates of Interest on Credit Sales, 1383-1405
  • G. Documents
  • H. Genealogies of the Gaddi, Soranzo, and Priuli Families
  • I. The Value of Money and the Cost of Living
  • J. Builders' Wages from the Late Trecento to the Early Cinquecento.