Table des matières

Katia Béguin et Jean-Philippe Genet

Taxation and the Rise of the State: Introductory Remarks

• Imposing Taxation
• Debt, from Cities to States
• A Mosaic of Experiences, and Some Common Questions

Tax or Borrow or Borrow and Tax?

Denis Menjot et Fausto Piola Caselli

Introduction

José Damián González Arce

Monetary, Fiscal and Financial Reform of the Castilian State (Thirteenth–Seventeenth Century)

• I. Monetary Policy and Deflationary Measures
• II. Fiscal Policy
• III. Public Debt

Rodrigo da Costa Dominguez

The Real Thing: the Pedidos of Portugal and the Demands for Extraordinary Revenues in the Later Middle Ages

• Portugal: the Need for a Fiscal Orientation and the New Historiography
• Credit and Extraordinary Revenues: Definitive and Constant Needs
• Loan or Tax? Tax and Loan?

Matteo Di Tullio

Fiscal Redistribution, War and State-Building in Sixteenth-Century Lombardy

• Introduction
• I. Milanese Finances in the First Half of the Sixteenth Century
• II. The Estimo Generale and Fiscal Reforms during the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century

Peter Rauscher

Tax Systems, Debts and Loans: the Case of the Habsburg Monarchy (Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries)

• I. The Invention and Development of Tax Systems under the Habsburg Monarchy
• II. The Creditors of the Habsburg Monarchy
• III. The Problem of Institutions, or the Limits of Austrian State-Building
• IV. The Groups and Authorities Involved in Decision-Making Processes
• Conclusion

Carlo Taviani

The Paga Floreni. Political Uses of a Dividend Tax in Genoa (Late Fifteenth Century)

• I. The Acquisition of the Paga Floreni by the Casa di San Giorgio
• II. A Sovereignty Divided

Political Construction and the Management of Public Resources

Christine Lebeau

Introduction

Adrian R. Bell, Chris Brooks et Tony K. Moore

Credit Finance in the Middle Ages: Loans to the English Crown 1272–1345

• I. The Ricciardi of Lucca, 1272–1294
• II. The Frescobaldi of Florence, c. 1294–1312
• III. Antonio Pessagno of Genoa
• IV. The Bardi of Florence, c. 1315–1336
• V. The Bardi and Peruzzi, 1336–1345
• VI. Research Findings
• A. Profits
• B. Financing
• VII. The End of the Affair

Luciano Pezzolo

No Debt without Taxation. Fiscal Policy, Institutions and Politics in Italy 1350–1700

• Introduction
• I. The Duchy of Savoy-Piedmont
• II. The Kingdom of Sicily
• III. The Florentine State
• IV. The Venetian Republic
• V. Analogies and Differences
• VI. Institutions, Consent and Taxation

Mauro Carboni

From Communal to State Finance: a New Fiscal Pact in the Early Modern Papal States

• Introduction
• I. An In-Depth Transformation of Finance
• II. The Path of Cooperation and Its Limits
• III. Borrowing, Another Consensual Solution
• Conclusion

Regina Grafe

Distant Tyranny: Polycentric State-Building and Fiscal Systems in Spain 1650–1800

• I. The Construction of Polycentric States: a Historiographical Revision
• II. Fragmented Sovereignty and Stability: the Government of Spain
• III. The Restraints to Economic Growth

Markets for Public Debt Securities

Laurent Feller et Dominique Margairaz

Introduction

• I. Social and Political Logic of Debt: the Examples of Genoa and Castile
• II. Public Credit in Time and Space

Jeffrey Miner

The Social Logic of Genoese Public Debt Before the Casa di San Giorgio (Thirteenth–Fifteenth Century)

• I. The Social and Moral Valence of Genoa’s Public Debt
• II. The Market for Shares
• Conclusion

David Chilosi

Revisiting Notes on the History of the Interest Rate: Bond Markets in the Republic of Genoa

• Introduction
• I. Cipolla’s and Later Warnings
• II. Reliability
• III. A Tale of Two Markets
• IV. The Republican Mark-Up
• Conclusion

Claudio Marsilio

‘A Wise Man Is Always Ready to Face a Disaster’. The Professional Skill of Genoese, Florentine and Portuguese Financial Operators in Seventeenth-Century Exchange Fairs

• I. The Exchange Fairs: a Brief History
• II. The Bill of Exchange: a Definition
• III. The Exchange Fairs: Deeper Insights
• IV. The Professional Skills of the Exchange Fairs’ Brokers
• V. The Florentine Operators: Some Examples
• VI. A Genoese ‘Big Company’ Trading at the Fairs: the Spinola Firm
• VII. Giorgio and Giovanni Giorgio Sanguineti: a Genoese ‘Medium Enterprise’ at the Fairs (1634–1656)
• VIII. Giovanni Antonio Sauli: a Single ‘Entrepreneur’ at the Fairs (1618–1622)
• IX. The Portuguese Hombres de Negocio: the Asientos (1626–1647)

Anne L. Murphy

Compromised Credibility: the Problems of Trading Debt at the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England

• Introduction
• I. Managing the Space within the Bank
• II. How Did the Bank Support the Transfer and Registration of Securities and the Payment of Dividends?
• III. Managing the Clerks
• Conclusion

Pierre-Cyrille Hautcœur

Conclusion

• I. Political Construction: the Result of War?
• II. Financial Markets and Parliaments: an English Model?
• III. Centralization or Decentralization?
• IV. Politics Versus the Markets
• V. Construction of Fiscal and Financial Authorities: According to Weber