The Venetian Money Market
Banks, Panics, and the Public Debt, 1200-1500
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About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Copyright Page
- Frontispiece
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Part I: Local Banks and Bankers: The Institutional Side
- Part II: The Vagaries of Deposit Banking: A History Seen Through Panics, Bankruptcies, and Liquidations
- Part III: The Money Market and Foreign Exchange
- Part IV: Public Debt and Private Wealth: The Floating Debt
- Part V: Public Debt and Private Wealth: Forced Loans and Marketable Credits
- Conclusion
- Appendixes
- Bibliography
- Index