Architecture of Banking in Renaissance Italy - Constructing the Spaces of Money

Probes historical relationships between banks and religious beliefs, exploring urban geographies and architectural forms that reveal moral attitudes toward money during the early onset of capitalism.

List of contents

1. Networked agglomerations; 2. The technology of money, architecture and the public good; 3. Across economic geographies: trade sites beyond the peninsula; 4. The transcendental economy.

About the author

Lauren Jacobi is a scholar of late medieval and early modern European architecture. She has received fellowships from the Kress Foundation, the Getty Research Institute, the Morgan Library and Museum, and the American Council of Learned Societies. In 2015–16, she held a postdoctoral Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome. She is to be the co-editor of Purity and Contamination in the Renaissance (forthcoming).

Product details

• Authors: Lauren Jacobi, Lauren (Massachusetts Institute of Technol Jacobi
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781108483223
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48322-3
• No. of pages: 252
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; European History, Southern Europe, ARCHITECTURE / General, Italy, Economic history, CE period up to c 1500, Medieval History, History of Art, History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600, History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400, c 1000 CE to c 1500, 15th century, c 1400 to c 1499, History of Architecture, Western Europe, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Renaissance art, Renaissance style, History and Archaeology, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Western Continental Europe, Medieval style