Bankers to the Crown: The Riccardi of Lucca and Edward I

by Richard W. Kaeuper

Book Overview

Throughout the thirteenth century Western European monarchs were hampered by the failure of their traditional revenues to meet their new expenses. Edward I of England solved the primary problem of acquiring adequate funds with the imposition of a duty on wool and leather and by more frequent direct taxes. But collection was slow and irregular; there still remained the problem of liquidity. To ensure a steady flow of cash to meet his military, administrative,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691052042
• ISBN13: 9780691052045
• Release Date: March 1973
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.