A collection of texts printed in early seventeenth-century Naples exemplifies the intersection
between economic history and the history of thought. A slowly worsening monetary situation …

I examine the Neapolitan public banks, a group of non-profit institutions that emerged in the
late sixteenth century, in the context of the early public banks that existed elsewhere in early …

State of enmity explores how relations of hatred and enmity played political and social roles
in the early modern Kingdom of Naples. Exploring the pervasive notion of enmity and …

Teresa of Ávila's cult was dramatically disseminated in previously unknown celebrations
honoring her beatification (1614) and canonization (1622) in Italy and Portuguese Asia, the …

In 1622 a major foreign exchange and monetary crisis broke out in Naples. It was
characterized by a collapse of the domestic currency on foreign exchange markets, rising …

In this thesis I present a human history of the diffusion of the phenomenon of public banking
in late-medieval and early modern Europe (1350–1650), with a focus on the sixteenth and …

This article examines the practices and structures of corruption in Spanish Italy and
demonstrates how the forms of official conduct that would later be categorized as corrupt in …

This chapter provides a history of public banks in the Habsburg monarchy through the lens
of their role as a commitment device in the issuance of public debt. Comparing the Vienna …

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, hundreds of penitent renegades—Christian
converts to Islam who sought to become Catholic—approached local tribunals of the Roman …

The Spanish Jews and Conversos who migrated to Naples evaded mistreatment and
expulsion by using their competence as financiers and administrators of the state. Though …