Accounts of the English Crown with Italian Merchant Societies, 1272-1345
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- Author(s) Ball, Adrian R, Chris Brooks & Tony K Moore
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2009
- Pages 306pp
- Publisher List & Index Society
- Place Published Kew
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Transcriptions of accounts [pp1-285]: Ricciardi family of Lucca, 1272-94 [16 docs]; Frescobaldi family of Florence, c1299-1311 [11 docs]; Bardi family of Florence [9 docs]; Bardi and Peruzzi families of Florence, 1336-c1343 [6 docs]. Also introduction [v-xx] which includes short essays on the English credit system and medieval accounting systems. The volume deals with the huge sums of money advanced to the English Crown [Edward I, II and II], 1272-1345, by the families who were then the main financiers of English government