ACLS Humanities E-Book: Money and banking in medieval and Renaissance Venice

Money and banking in medieval and Renaissance Venice

Lane, Frederic Chapin, 1900-

Year: c1985.

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Preface

List of Abbreviations

PART I THE BACKGROUND

1. What Money Is and Was

2. Seigniorage and International Flows of Silver and Gold

3. Recoinage: Revaluations and Devaluations

4. Bimetallism and Multiple Monetary Standards

5. Metallic Values and Exchange Values

6. The Rise of Bankers

7. Venice's Place in Monetary History

PART II VENICE'S MONEYS, BULLION MARKET, AND MINT

8. The First Coins and Moneys of Account

9. The Bullion Trade and Market Organization

10. The Mint's Products, Purchases, and Prices

11. Communal Revenue

12. Within the Mint

PART III THE GENESIS AND PERSISTENCE OF BIMETALISM

13. Competing Moneys and Venice's First Bimetallic Standard

14. The Rise of Gold

15. The Restructuring of Venice's Monetary System

16. The Multiplication of Moneys of Account

17. The Fall of Gold

18. Devaluations of the Silver Money

19. Foreign Exchange during the Fall of Gold

20. The Mobility and Utility of Europe's Moneys of Account

21. Motivations in Venetian Monetary Policy

Appendix A. Mint Charges

Appendix B. Volume and Rate of Production

Appendix C. Silver and Copper Prices

Appendix D. Domestic Exchange

Appendix E. Silver: Special Problems

Appendix F. The "Quindexena"

Appendix G. Documents

Bibliography

Index

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Title:

Money and banking in medieval and Renaissance Venice : Frederic C. Lane, Reinhold C. Mueller.

Author:

Lane, Frederic Chapin, 1900-

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Money and banking in medieval and Renaissance Venice : Frederic C. Lane, Reinhold C. Mueller.
Lane, Frederic Chapin, 1900-
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c1985.

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Subject Headings:

• Money -- Italy -- Venice -- History
• Banks and banking -- Italy -- Venice -- History
• Economic history -- 16th century
• Venice (Italy) -- Economic conditions

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