Commercial Agreements And Social Dynamics In Medieval Genoa
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Author | : Quentin van Doosselaere |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2009-04-27 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0521897920 |
An empirical study of medieval long-distance trade agreements and the surrounding social dynamics, drawing on 20,000 notarial records.
Author | : Quentin van Doosselaere |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2009-04-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1139479210 |
Commercial Agreements and Social Dynamics in Medieval Genoa is an empirical study of medieval long-distance trade agreements and the surrounding social dynamics that transformed the feudal organization of men-of-arms into the world of Renaissance merchants. Drawing on 20,000 notarial records, the book traces the commercial partnerships of thousands of people in Genoa from 1150 to 1435 and reports social activity on a scale that is unprecedented for such an early period of history. In combining a detailed historical reading with network modeling to analyze the change in the long-distance trade relationships, Quentin van Doosselaere challenges the prevailing western-centric view of development. He demonstrates that the history of the three main medieval economic frameworks that brought about European capitalism - equity, credit, and insurance - was not driven by strategic merchants' economic optimizations but rather by a change in partners' selections that reflected the dynamic of the social structure as a whole.
Author | : Carrie E. Benes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Civilization |
ISBN | : 9789004360013 |
A Companion to Medieval Genoa introduces recent scholarship on the vibrant and source-rich medieval history of Genoa, with thematic chapters positioning the city and its people within the broader history of Italy and the Mediterranean ca. 1100-1500.
Author | : Donald Vernon Sippel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 105 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Genoa (Italy) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Calvin Bryce Hoover |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Genoa (Italy) |
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Author | : Steven A. Epstein |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807849927 |
A history of Genoa, tracing the city's transformation from an obscure port into the capital of a small but thriving republic with an extensive overseas empire. Covering six centuries, the text interweaves political events, economic trends, social conditions and cultural accomplishments.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2019-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526142902 |
This book offers the first English translation of the Chronicle of the city of Genoa by the thirteenth-century Dominican Jacopo da Varagine, an author best known for his monumental book of saints’ lives, the Golden legend. Jacopo’s Chronicle presents a coherent vision of Genoa’s place in history, the cosmos and Creation as written by the city’s own archbishop – mixing eyewitness accounts with scholarly research about the city’s origins and didactic reflections on the proper conduct of public and private life. Accompanied by an extensive introduction, this complete translation provides a unique perspective on a dynamic medieval city-state from one of its most important officials, broadening the available literature in English on medieval Italian urban life.
Author | : Thomas Allison Kirk |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2013-01-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1421412705 |
Genoa enjoyed an important and ever-changing role in the early modern Mediterranean world. In medieval times, the city transformed itself from a tumultuous maritime republic into a stable and prosperous one, making it one of the most important financial centers in Europe. When Spanish influence in the Mediterranean world began to decline, Genoa, its prosperity closely linked with Spain's, again had to reinvent itself and its economic stature. In Genoa and the Sea, historian Thomas Allison Kirk reconstructs the early modern Mediterranean world and closely studies Genoa's attempt to evolve in the ever-changing political and economic landscape. He focuses on efforts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to revive shipbuilding and maritime commerce as a counterbalance to the city's volatile financial sector. A key component to the plan was a free port policy that attracted merchants and stimulated trade. Through extensive research and close reading of primary documents, Kirk discusses the underpinnings of this complex early modern republic. Genoa's transformations offer insight into the significant and sweeping changes that were taking place all over Europe.
Author | : Matteo Salonia |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2017-02-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1498534228 |
This book investigates the economic, intellectual and political history of late medieval and early modern Genoa and the historical origins of the Genoese presence in the Spanish Atlantic. Salonia describes Genoa’s late medieval economic expansion and commercial networks through several case studies, from the Black Sea to southern England, and briefly compares it to the state-run military expansion of Venice’s empire. The author links the adaptability and entrepreneurial skills of Genoese merchants and businessmen to the constitutional history of the Genoese commune and to the specific idea of freedom progressively protected by its constitutions and embodied by institutions like the Bank of St. George. Moreover, this book offers an unprecedented account of the actions with which Ferdinand the Catholic protected Genoese merchants in his dominions and of the later, mutual understanding between the Genoese community and emperor Charles V during the Italian Wars, and in particular during the 1520s. These developments in Hispanic-Genoese diplomatic and economic relations are of great significance. The sixteenth-century Hispanic-Genoese alliance is important to understand the characteristics of Habsburg governance and the resilience of Genoa’s republican conservatism. Genoa’s republicanism (based on private wealth and private arms) contradicts historiographical narratives that assume the inevitability of the emergence of the modern, militarized and centralized state. It also shows the inadequacy of Tuscan-centric historical accounts of Renaissance republicanism. The last chapter of the book reveals the consequences of the 1528 Hispanic-Genoese alliance by considering case studies that illustrate the Genoese presence in the Spanish Americas, from Chile to Mexico, since the early stages of conquest and settlement.
Author | : Eugene Hugh Byrne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Genoa (Italy) |
ISBN | : |