This volume brings together a series of studies by Professor Blomquist on the evolution of banking in Lucca from the 12th and 13th centuries. They describe how

A dynamic framework for studying social emergence The social sciences have sophisticated models of choice and equilibrium but little understanding of the emerge

The Middle Ages (800–1400) were a rich and vibrant period in the history of European culture, society, and intellectual thought. Emerging state powers, econom

Money is usually understood as a valuable object, the value of which is attributed to it by its users and which other users recognize. It serves to link dispara

This book examines the forms of estate management in the countryside of Florence and Lucca between the eleventh and the middle of the thirteenth centuries. It a