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SUMMARY:An Italian bank and its international and local credit networks: F
 ilippo Borromei &amp\; company of Bruges and London in the 1430s - Profess
 or Jim Bolton\, School of History\, QMUL
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DTEND:20110502T180000Z
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CONTACT:D'Maris Coffman
DESCRIPTION:‘The ledgers of Filippo Borromei e compagni of Bruges ( for 
 the year 1436) and Filippo Borromei e compagni of London (1436-9) make it 
 possible to see how an Italian bank participated in both the international
  exchange and local credit markets in north-western Europe in the first ha
 lf of the fifteenth century. The findings of the Borromei Bank Research Pr
 oject at Queen Mary\, University of London\, suggest that long-held theori
 es about imbalances in trade and payments between northern and southern Eu
 rope in the later middle ages need to be re-examined\, given the bank’s 
 ability to settle international payments by book rather than bullion trans
 fers.’\n 
LOCATION:Sidgwick Hall (or Old Dining Room)\, Newnham College
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