International fairs as money, credit, and exchange markets, from the 12th to 16th centuries

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Configuration of European fairs: an introduction 1
4. Chapter I: Creating, defining, and attending fairs
5. The privileging of ‘new’ fairs in the late medieval Holy Roman Empire: coordination of fairs by means of privileges 37
6. Festa and Feria: on the exhibitions of Christ relics during fairs and the coordination of sanctuary and merchant calendars in the Middle Ages 77
7. Shopping at the Geneva fairs: the contribution of Savoyard accounting records in the time of Duke Amadeus VIII 95
8. Chapter II: Credit and financial techniques
9. Papacy and fairs: an elusive link? 123
10. Interactions between regional and international markets: Asti, credit, and fairs between the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age 157
11. Accounting fairs: Florentine and south German merchant-bankers at the fairs in 16th-century Lyon 179
12. ‘News from the South’: price lists and currents from the Spanish and Italian exchange fairs between the 15th and 17th centuries 219
13. International fairs as money, credit, and exchange markets, from the 12th to 16th centuries 245
14. Chapter III: Merchants at fairs
15. From Florence to Lyon and Geneva fairs: the Pazzi family, the King of France, and the shifting economic geography during the late 15th century 271
16. From the markets of Chieri to the fairs of Lyon: tracing the mobility of the Pietraviva family from the 13th to 15th centuries 291
17. Before the fairs: merchants and moneylenders in late medieval Lyon 315
18. Liquidity management through financial service providers and the role of fairs: the case of the Augsburg merchant David Gauger and the Bolzano merchant David Wagner 337
19. Chapter IV: Europe and beyond: time and space of fairs
20. Fair rhythms: on times, spaces, and experiences of fairs 361
21. Foreign merchants and the new trading route in the Hungarian Kingdom in the 14th century 389
22. The network of temple fairs and their actors: religious communities, brokers, and merchants in late Imperial China 425
23. East of Leipzig: great annual markets and fairs in Poland and Muscovy up to the 17th century 445
24. Chapter V: Presentation of the CoMOR website/ database
25. Fairs in History: the public database of the CoMOR project 471
26. List of authors 489
27. Erratum to: Accounting fairs: Florentine and south German merchant-bankers at the fairs in 16th-century Lyon 491