A New Look at the Dealings of the Bardi and Peruzzi with Edward III
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4817824 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edwin S Hunt (University of Cincinnati, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 149-162 |
| Publication date | 1990-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022050700035762 |
| OpenAlex | W2160760041 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 7 |
The Bardi and Peruzzi of Florence became in the early fourteenth century the largest merchant-bankers ever seen in medieval Europe. Their collapse in the 1340s has been attributed by most historians to huge losses on loans to Edward III of England. This article explores some flaws in the conventional explanation and shows that the firms lacked the resources to have made loans on the generally accepted scale. It also suggests means by which the companies could have recovered at least part of their advances to the king without the results appearing in government ledgers
Business · Economic history · Government (linguistics) · Ledger · Political science · Finance · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2024 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |