Search Results for: Italian Merchants In The Early Modern Spanish Monarchy

Italian businessmen played a key role in both international trade and finance from the Middle Ages until the first decades of the seventeenth century. While the

"Imperial Ambition in the Early Modern Mediterranean Genoese Merchants and the Spanish Crown. This book examines the alliance between the Spanish Crown and Geno

The sixteenth century was a critical period both for Spain’s formation and for the imperial dominance of her Crown. Spanish monarchs ruled far and wide, sprea

This book deals with the Netherlandish merchant community in early modern Venice. It analyses how these immigrant traders used their commercial position to secu

Exploring reason of state in a global monarchy, The Power of Necessity examines how thinkers and agents in the Spanish monarchy navigated the tension between po