TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ceccarelli,Giovanni
TI  - Risky Markets: Marine Insurance in Renaissance Florence
T2  - Brill's Studies in Maritime History Series
SN  - 9789004442450
AV  - HG8629.F56 .C433 2021 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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