The Rise and Decline of the Medici Bank, 1397-1494
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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
Prof. Raymond de Roover
RAYMOND ADRIEN DE ROOVER (1904-1972) was a noted economic historian of medieval Europe. Born in Belgium in 1904, he graduated from the Institut Supérieur de Commerce in Antwerp in 1924. He completed his military training and worked in a bank, before joining the Agence Maritime Internationale, one of the world’s largest steamship operators, where he remained until 1936. During this time he developed an interest in the history of economics and accounting, working in the archives of Antwerp and Bruges in his spare time. His first book, Jan Ympyn, on the first Flemish accounting treaty, was published in 1928. He received his Master in Business Administration from Harvard University in 1938 and went on to teach at Harvard University, University of Chicago, Boston College, and Brooklyn College in The City University of New York, in addition to various European universities. He was also a Guggenheim Fellow in 1949. His published works include Money, Banking and Credit in Medieval Bruges (1948); The Rise and Decline of the Medici Bank, 1397-1494 (1963); and Business, Banking, and Economic Thought in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1974). He died in 1972.
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