Medievalist.net on Banking

A few of the posts tagged 'banking' at medievalists.net:

Did Purchasing Power Parity Hold in Medieval Europe?

Posted on August 4, 2014 |

This paper employs a unique, hand-collected dataset of exchange rates for five major currencies (the lira of Barcelona, the pound sterling of England, the pond groot of Flanders, the florin of Florence and the livre tournois of France) to consider whether the law of one price and purchasing power parity held in Europe during the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries.

  Measuring the Value of Things in the Middle Ages

Posted on July 30, 2014 |

The difficulty of understanding the value of things in the Middle Ages is one of the obstacles to our understanding of economic life in that era. The issue is first of all associated with the ways medievalists quantify and use numbers. Value was first investigated when studying prices in the 19th century, as a prerequisite to any knowledge of the economy.

Economic Credit in Renaissance Florence

Posted on April 23, 2013 |

What were the social and institutional factors that led to, and reinforced, the precocious emergence of Florentine commercial capitalism, especially in the domain of international merchant banking?

The Social Stratigraphy of Coin and Credit in Late Medieval England

Posted on January 29, 2012 |

The money that the medieval English made conducted matters of state into the heart of society. The concerted quality of value – the fact that creating a currency connected public authority with every individual holding it – made that unavoidable.

The State as an Enforcer in Early Venetian Trade: a Historical Institutional Analysis

Posted on October 9, 2011 |

The State as an Enforcer in Early Venetian Trade: a Historical Institutional Analysis González de Lara, Yadira  (Dep. of Economic Analysis. University of Alicante) Paper given at the Fifth World Congress of […]

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