Author: Raymond De RooverPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226725468
Category : Accounting
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Business, Banking, and Economic Thought in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Author: Raymond De RooverPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226725468
Category : Accounting
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Business, Banking, and Economic Thought in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Author: Raymond De RooverPublisher:
ISBN: 9780226725468
Category : Accounting
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Business, Banking, and Economic Thought in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Author: Raymond De RooverBusiness, and Banking, and Economic Thought in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Author: Julius KirshnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Accounting
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Business, Banking, and Economic Thought in Late Medieval Andearly Modern Europe
Author: The Rise and Decline of the Medici Bank, 1397-1494
Author: Prof. Raymond de RooverPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789120772
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
The roots of modern capitalism go back to the Italian banking system of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. In the fifteenth century, the Medici Bank succeeded in overshadowing its competitors, the Bardi and the Peruzzi, who were the giants of the fourteenth century, and grew into a vast establishment with branches in most of the large cities of Western Europe. A study of its operations is essential to an understanding of the economic conditions in Europe in the fifteenth century. From a careful study of pertinent documents, including a set of libri segreti (confidential ledgers) discovered in 1950, Professor de Roover has reconstructed the details of the bank’s organization and operating methods; its loan policies, which reflected the Church’s doctrine on usury; its trading and industrial investments; its roles within the Florentine gild system and tax structure; and its activities as financial agent of the Church. He covers every aspect of the bank’s history, from its early years under the management of Giovanni di Bicci de’ Medici to its collapse with the expulsion of the Medici from Florence. “An invaluable contribution to the economic history of the period....A splendid book.”—Harry A. Miskimin, The American Economic Review “The most important work in English on a medieval or Renaissance bank.”—The Economist “The best book ever written on the medieval banking system.”—John T. Noonan, Jr., Harvard Law Review “The most authoritative treatment of its subject in any language.”—Rondo Cameron, The Accounting Review
Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe
Author: Robert S. DuplessisPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521397735
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Between the end of the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution, the long-established structures and practices of European agriculture and industry were slowly, disparately, but profoundly transformed. Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe, first published in 1997, narrates and analyzes the diverse patterns of economic change that permanently modified rural and urban production, altered Europe's economy and geography, and gave birth to new social classes. Broad in chronological and geographical scope and explicitly comparative, the book introduces readers to a wealth of information drawn from thoughout Mediterranean, east-central, and western Europe, as well as to the classic interpretations and current debates and revisions. The study incorporates scholarship on topics such as the world economy and women's work, and it discusses at length the impact of the emergent capitalist order on Europe's working people.
The Medici Bank
Author: Prof. Raymond de RooverPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1787207714
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Professor Raymond de Roover received his MBA from Harvard University in June 1938, and it was during that summer that he, together with his wife, Florence Edler, an American scholar studying European economic history, photographed the records that would form the basis for this Medici Bank study. First published in 1948, this publication examines the structural organization and eventual fall of the Medici Bank, the largest and most respected bank in Europe during its prime in the 15th century (1397-1494). The book includes in-depth chapters covering the Florentine banking system; the structure of the Medici firm; the central administration and the branches; the management of the branches; the management of the industrial establishments in Florence; banking and exchange transactions; commercial transactions; the alum cartel; the sources of invested funds; and, finally, the causes of the decline. An important addition to the historical analysis of banking during the formative period of modern institutions.
Money, Markets and Trade in Late Medieval Europe
Author: Lawrin ArmstrongPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900415633X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 669
Book Description
The volume explores late medieval market mechanisms and associated institutional, fiscal and monetary, organizational, decision-making, legal and ethical issues, as well as selected aspects of production, consumption and market integration. The essays span a variety of local, regional, and long-distance markets and networks.
Money, Commerce, and Economics in Late Medieval English Literature
Author: Craig E. BertoletPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319719009
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
This is the first collection of essays dedicated to the topics of money and economics in the English literature of the late Middle Ages. These essays explore ways that late medieval economic thought informs contemporary English texts and apply modern modes of economic analysis to medieval literature. In so doing, they read the importance and influence of historical records of practices as aids to contextualizing these texts. They also apply recent modes of economic history as a means to understand the questions the texts ask about economics, trade, and money. Collectively, these papers argue that both medieval and modern economic thought are key to valuable historical contextualization of medieval literary texts, but that this criticism can be advanced only if we also recognize the specificity of the economic and social conditions of late-medieval England.