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Lest We Break Faith With Our Creditors: Public Debt And Civic Culture In Fourteenth-Century Genoa, Jeff Miner
Lest We Break Faith With Our Creditors: Public Debt And Civic Culture In Fourteenth-Century Genoa, Jeff Miner
Jeff Miner
"Lest we break faith with our creditors" examines the evolving connection
between forms of public finance, particularly long-term debt, and communal life in
Genoa between around 1350 and 1407. It draws on a range of sources and methodologies,
from poetry and sermons to quantitative techniques, to revise Genoa's and Italy's place in
long-term debates over finance and state development as well as in discussions of
economic and social change in the period after the plague.
This dissertation consists of six chapters, roughly divided between two lines of
inquiry. Chapters 1, 2, and 3 examine several ways communal indebtedness changed the …