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The Venetian money market : banks, panics, and the public debt, 1200-1500 / Reinhold C. Mueller.
Lippincott Library HG1040.V46 M84 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mueller, Reinhold C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Money--Italy--Venice--History.
- Money.
- Banks and banking--Italy--Venice--History.
- Banks and banking.
- Money market--Italy--Venice--History.
- Money market.
- Economic history--Medieval, 500-1500.
- Economic history.
- Economic history--Medieval.
- Economic history--16th century.
- Renaissance--Italy--Venice.
- Renaissance.
- History.
- Italy--Venice.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 711 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : John Hopkins University Press, 1997.
- Summary:
- 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 and credit available, from London to Constantinople and beyond, Venetian merchants and bankers created specialized financial institutions at the service of private entrepreneurs and public administrators: deposit banks, foreign exchange banks, the grain office, and a bureau of the public debt. This new volume 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.
- 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."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 665-691) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0801854377
- OCLC:
- 35750369
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