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  • De Roover on Business, Banking, and Economic Thought

  • Thomas W. Blomquist
  • Journal:
    The Journal of Economic History / Volume 35 / Issue 4 / December 1975
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    11 May 2010, pp. 821-830
    Print publication:
    December 1975

  • The untimely death of Raymond de Roover in March 1972 removed one of the major figures from the field of medieval economic history. Now there has appeared a collection of eleven of de Roover's articles, one of them not previously published, to remind us of the magisterial quality of their author's contributions to our knowledge of medieval business and banking techniques and the milieu in which the medieval man of business operated.

  • The Castracani Family of Thirteenth-Century Lucca*

  • Thomas W. Blomquist
  • Journal:
    / Volume 46 / Issue 3 / July 1971
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    11 June 2012, pp. 459-476
    Print publication:
    July 1971

  • The partnership controlled by the Castracani family ranked among the foremost international banking organizations of late thirteenth-century Lucca. Members of the Castracani family first appear in the Lucchese notarial documents of about 1250 as money-changers, campsores. In succeeding generations they became increasingly identified with large-scale, international banking and finance. Thus, apart from the interest attaching to the family that produced Castruccio Castracani, lord of Lucca and would-be master of Tuscany, the history of the Castracani family's enterprises serves to illucidate the conduct, methods and organizations of early banking in Lucca, one of the major industrial and commercial centers of mediaeval Europe.