Risky Markets : Marine Insurance in Renaissance Florence.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (379 pages)
- Brill's Studies in Maritime History Series ; v.8 .
- Brill's Studies in Maritime History Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword to This Edition -- Tables and Charts -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Note on Dates, Names and Currencies -- Chapter 1 Institutions: Contracts and Legislation -- Chapter 2 Trade and Insurance: Routes -- Chapter 3 Trade and Insurance: Goods -- Chapter 4 Trade and Insurance: Seacraft -- Chapter 5 The Premium: Structural Factors -- Chapter 6 The Premium: Contingent Factors -- Chapter 7 The Florentine Insurance Market Within the European Context -- Chapter 8 The Market and Its Operators: Demand -- Chapter 9 The Market and Its Operators: Supply -- Chapter 10 The Market and Its Operators: Techniques and Organisational -- Chapter 11 The Market and Its Operators: The "Risk Experts" -- Chapter 12 Institutions Again: Informal Safeguards -- Conclusions -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Bibliography -- Index.
Risky Markets explores a crucial moment in marine insurance history, when tools to tackle risks are in the making. It accounts for one of the earliest attempts of a specialized insurance market is carried out in Renaissance Florence.