On the Dual Origins of Long-Term Urban Debt in Medieval Europe
James D. Tracy
The essays in this volume offer a state-of-the-art analysis of heretofore somewhat neglected part financial history: the way which urban governments Western Europe during Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Times handled public debts their cities were confronted with. technical aspects sale annuities (renten, rentes) may have already been abundantly studied, but links with social political history still needed to be tackled. Who bought these thus participated sharing burden profits likely arise from them? What motives? How did obvious elites work? And, perhaps most significantly, how occasional sales evolve into structural linking financially important private persons finances, context both growing states, since often money on short-term basis order accomplish own obligations toward ‘the state’. Participants colloquium where large number first presented represent place strongholds period under scrutiny: Low Countries Northern Central Italy, Swiss cities, Aragon, London papal Rome are also considered.
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