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Financing in Europe : evolution, coexistence and complementarity of lending practices from the Middle Ages to modern times
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- Creator
- Marcella Lorenzini, Cinzia Lorandini, D'Maris Coffman, editors
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource
- ISBNs
- 3319584936, 3319584928, 9783319584935, 9783319584928
- OCLC
- on1023861475
- Includes index.
- Intro; Contents; Contributors; List of Figures; List of Tables; Introduction; Formal and Informal Credit Across Europe: A Long-Run Perspective; References; Part I: Informal, Non-institutional and Professional Credit in Preindustrial Europe; The Rise of London as a Financial Capital in Late Medieval England; The Statute Merchant and Staple Certificates of Debt; Londonâ#x80;#x99;s Financial Status in 1290â#x80;#x93;99; Alien Merchants and Londonâ#x80;#x99;s Credit; The Crownâ#x80;#x99;s Influence on Londonâ#x80;#x99;s Credit; The City and the Cloth Trade; Falling Coin and Coin; Conclusions; References
- When Things Go Wrong: Credit, Defaults and Institutions in Early Modern VeniceThe Framework of Early Modern Venetian Trade; Financing Companies and Business in Early Modern Venice; Coping with Conflicts. The Protection of Credit Rights; A Tentative Conclusion; List of Abbreviations for Archival Sources; References; Financing Trade Through Limited Partnerships: Evidence from Silk Firms in Eighteenth-Century Trentino; Introduction; The Limited Partnership in Early Modern Europe; The Case of Silk Merchants in Trentino: Sources and Method; Single Traders and Family Firms
- Detecting Limited PartnershipsDirect Evidence from Partnership Agreements; Indirect Evidence from the â#x80;#x98;Oblatorieâ#x80;#x99 Concluding Remarks; Abbreviations for Archival Sources; References; Borrowing and Lending Money in Alpine Areas During the Eighteenth Century: Trento and Rovereto Compared; Introduction; The Notaries as Credit Intermediaries; Credit Instruments; Risk Mitigation; Loan Sizes and the Purpose of Debt; Interest Rates; Borrowers and Lenders; Concluding Remarks; Archival References; Trento; Rovereto; References
- The Social Acceptance of Paper Credit as Currency in Eighteenth-Century England: A Case Study of Glastonbury c. 1720â#x80;#x93;1742References; Public Functions, Private Markets: Credit Registration by Aldermen and Notaries in the Low Countries, 1500â#x80;#x93;1800; Introduction; Registering Private Debt; Transaction Patterns; The Functions of Aldermen and Notaries; Risk Pricing; Conclusion; References; Notaries and Domestic Lending in Wartime (Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France); Borrowing in Critical Times: The War Against Spain (1648â#x80;#x93;1659)
- Promissory Notes and Reconstitutions During the Seven Yearsâ#x80;#x99; War (1756â#x80;#x93;1763)Forced Loans and Liquidity Insurance: A Combination for Channelling Funds; The Other Side of Notariesâ#x80;#x99; Activities: The Use of Deposits; References; Private Credit in Spain During the Late Eighteenth and the Early Nineteenth Centuries: Institutions, Crisis and War; Introduction; Institutional Framework: Problems and Imbalances; Private Credit in Valladolid; The Urgent Need for Credit: Short-Term Credit; Concentration and Stagnation: Long-Term Credit; Credit Dynamics During the War; Conclusions