Gestione del rischio, insolvenza e bancarotta nel mondo premoderno (secc. XIII-XVIII) / Risk management, insolvency, and bankruptcy in the pre-modern world (13th-18th centuries)
- Edited by:
- Angela Orlandi,
This volume examines risk management and insolvency in Europe from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century, exploring the relationship between legal norms and everyday practices. The inquiry extends beyond merchants to include producers and landowners, bringing together agriculture, manufacturing, and finance. At the heart of the study are institutional frameworks and the ways in which local and supra-state authorities regulated financial failure.
Particular attention is paid to conflict resolution strategies and the socioeconomic patterns that enabled economic activity to resume after financial collapse. Through a comparative perspective, the work reflects on the role of the state and the connections between insolvency and economic morality in the premodern world.
- Keywords:
- economic risk,
- insolvency,
- bankruptcy,
- premodern commercial law,
- medieval and early modern Europe,
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0963-2
- Series: Datini Studies in Economic History
- Scientific Board
- Language: Italian, English, French, Spanish
- Subjects: Economic History
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-6593-8954
Maria Fusaro
Gestione del rischio: insolvenza e bancarotta nel mondo premoderno (secc. XIII-XVIII)- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.1-12
CONCETTI, DEFINIZIONI E CONSIDERAZIONI TEORICHE / CONCEPTS, DEFINITIONS AND THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Thomas Max Safley
Understanding uncertainty: Reflections on insolvency, bankruptcy and ‘risk’ and the entanglement of state, capital and labor in the sixteenth century- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.15-37
Tommaso Stefini
Venetian creditors and Ottoman defaulters: handling bankruptcy in seventeenth-century Istanbul- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.39-56
Tanja Skambraks
Dealing with economic precarity through microcredit. The Monti di Pietà in late medieval and early modern Italy and Germany- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.57-82
ISTITUZIONI: QUADRI NORMATIVI E REGOLAMENTARI / INSTITUTIONS: NORMATIVE AND REGULATORY FRAMEWORKS
Lluís Sales i Favà
The courts of the local bailiffs in Medieval Mallorca. Shared jurisdictional mechanisms to prevent nonpayment- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.85-105
Dave De Ruysscher
The emergence of a municipal legal culture of insolvency (Low Countries, c. 1450-c. 1570)- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.107-131
Joris van den Tol
Limiting risks in the Dutch processing industry, 1600-1800- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.133-145
Íñigo Ena Sanjuán
From «util y combeniente, y aun necesario» to «perjudicialissimas, injustas, y contra todo fundamento legal»: redefining municipal debt restructuring in the Spanish Crown of Aragon (1732-1742)- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.147-165
Ángel Alloza Aparicio, Francisco Fernández Izquierdo, Elena García Guerra, Giuseppe De Luca, Isabella Cecchini
The decline of the Fugger in the seventeenth century. Preliminary research findings of the great German financial house- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.167-187
PROPRIETARI TERRIERI E PRODUTTORI / LANDOWNERS AND MANUFACTURERS
Lewis Wade
Manufacturing Markets: Managing the Industrial Risks of Franco-Asian Commerce, 1683–1702- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.191-206
Matteo Di Tullio
Risk sharing in agriculture: institutions and practices of cooperation in early modern Lombardy- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.207-224
pp.225-246
MERCANTI E OPERATORI FINANZIARI / MERCHANTS AND FINANCIAL OPERATORS
Mark Steele
Bankruptcy procedures in sixteenth century Seville, with special reference to the Espinosa and Morga bank failures in the 1570s- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.249-264
Markus A. Denzel
From risk management to resilience management. Strategies and instruments of Upper German merchant bankers in the ‘long’ sixteenth century to avoid insolvency and bankruptcy- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.265-289
Tessa De Boer, Ramona Negrón
Ad imperium et ultra: a comparative assessment of risk-mitigating strategies in early modern transimperial exploitation- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.291-308
Carlos Álvarez Nogal, Sergio Sardone
La crisis de la banca pública sevillana a mediados del siglo XVI. La quiebra de Domingo de Lizarraras en 1553- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.309-330
Nicolò Zennaro
«Credo per la grazia di Dio farei bene». Future thinking and knowledge of a risk (in)expert in late medieval Venice- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.331-357
Jerònia Pons, Juan Carpio Elías
The Tribunal of the Inquisition in Majorca and the bankruptcy induced in the business of Majorcan Jewish converts (1677-1681)- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.359-379
María Dolores López Pérez, Sari Yehuda Nassar
Managing risk in fifteenth-century Barcelona: The insurance practices of the merchant Joan de Torralba- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.381-407
Maya Zellweger
“Chi va piano va faro”. Risk Management of the linen merchants Zellweger from Trogen in the trading triangle Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Lyon and Genoa, 1750 to 1820- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.409-424
Magnus Ressel
Expansion of business range and prudent risk taking. Specht et Gonzebat in Lyon in the early eighteenth century- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.425-452
PRATICHE E CONTENZIOSI / PRACTICES AND LITIGATION
Cédric Quertier
Pour une approche globale des faillites florentines: premiers éléments d’analyse sérielle des procès devant le tribunal de la Mercanzia (1329-1350)- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.455-482
Jeroen Putttevils
Risk-lovers paradise: Lotteries and risk-taking in the Low Countries, 1441-1700- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.483-502
Claudio Lorenzini
Fra rischi e opportunità.I mercanti e la filiera del legname nell’area alpina orientale (secoli XVI-XVIII)- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.503-525
TAVOLA ROTONDA / ROUND TABLE
Càtia Antunes, Dave De Ruysscher, Thomas Max Safley, Tanja Skambraks
Roundtable. Risk, uncertainty and bankruptcy before modernity: Language, experience and historical understanding- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.529-537
Cédric Quertier
Un point de vue de médiéviste: gérer les risques, est-ce oblitérer les crises?- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.539-546
- Publication Year: 2026
- Pages: 568
- eISBN: 979-12-215-0963-2
- Content License: CC BY 4.0
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- Publication Year: 2026
- Pages: 568
- ISBN: 979-12-215-0962-5
- Content License: CC BY 4.0
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Book Title
Gestione del rischio, insolvenza e bancarotta nel mondo premoderno (secc. XIII-XVIII) / Risk management, insolvency, and bankruptcy in the pre-modern world (13th-18th centuries)
Editors
Angela Orlandi
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
568
Publication Year
2026
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DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0963-2
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Series Title
Datini Studies in Economic History
Series ISSN
2975-1241
Series E-ISSN
2975-1195
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