Despite bankruptcies being a ubiquitous occurrence in European communities trading in the Ottoman Empire during the early modern period, they have aroused little scholarly interest so far. This study aims to fill this gap by analyzing bankruptcy disputes between the Venetian and Ottoman merchants in Istanbul in the early seventeenth century. By examining the resolutions of these controversies through litigation in Ottoman Islamic courts and consular tribunals, as well as international diplomacy and out-of-court settlements, this piece demonstrates how Venetian and Ottoman authorities established an inter-polity system of courts and state obligations to prevent and manage bankruptcies among international merchants.
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Titolo del capitolo
Venetian creditors and Ottoman defaulters: handling bankruptcy in seventeenth-century Istanbul
Autori
Tommaso Stefini
Lingua
Inglese
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0963-2.05
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
Copyright
© 2026 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
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)
Curatori
Angela Orlandi
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
568
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
Copyright
© 2026 Author(s)
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Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0963-2
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0962-5
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0963-2
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-0964-9
Collana
Datini Studies in Economic History
ISSN della collana
2975-1241
e-ISSN della collana
2975-1195