Economies, Public Finances, and the Impact of Institutional Changes in Interregional Perspective SEUH 36 Studies in European Urban History (1100–1800)
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Economies, Public Finances, and the Impact of Institutional Changes in Interregional Perspective SEUH 36 Studies in European Urban History (1100–1800) Series Editors Marc Boone Anne-Laure Van Bruaene Ghent University © BREPOLS PUBLISHERS THIS DOCUMENT MAY BE PRINTED FOR PRIVATE USE ONLY. IT MAY NOT BE DISTRIBUTED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE PUBLISHER. Economies, Public Finances, and the Impact of Institutional Changes in Interregional Perspective The Low Countries and Neighbouring German Territories (14th-17th Centuries) Edited by Remi van Schaïk FH Cover illustration: after Quinten Metsys, The moneylender and his wife, sixteenth century. © [Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België, Brussel / foto: J. Gelyns/ Ro scan] © 2015, Brepols Publishers n.v., Turnhout, Belgium All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. D/2015/0095/40 ISBN 978-2-503-54785-5 (printed) ISBN 978-2-503-54823-4 (online) Printed in the EU on acid-free paper © BREPOLS PUBLISHERS THIS DOCUMENT MAY BE PRINTED FOR PRIVATE USE ONLY. IT MAY NOT BE DISTRIBUTED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE PUBLISHER. Contents Personalia vii Acknowledgements xi Introduction Remi van Schaïk Economies, Public Finances, and the Impact of Institutional Changes in Interregional Perspective: Some Introductory Remarks 3 Peter Hoppenbrouwers Three Decades of Economic and Social History of the Medieval Low Countries: A Summary Survey 11 Marjolein ’t Hart Coercion and Capital Revisited. Recent Trends in the Historiography of State-Formation 23 Industry and Trade Tim Soens, Peter Stabel & Tineke Van de Walle An Urbanised Countryside? A Regional Perspective on Rural Textile Production in the Flemish West-Quarter (1400-1600) 35 Job Weststrate The Impact of War on Lower Rhine Trade from the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries 61 Finances and Politics David Kusman & Jean-Luc Demeulemeester Connecting Regional Capital Markets in the Late Medieval Low Countries: The Role of Piedmontese Bankers as Financial Pathfinders and Innovators in Brabant, Guelders, Flanders and Hainaut (c.1260-1355) 83 Bart Lambert The Political Side of the Coin: Italian Bankers and the Fiscal Battle between Princes and Cities in the Late Medieval Low Countries 103 v Contents Rudolf A.A. Bosch The Impact of Financial Crises on the Management of Urban Fiscal Systems and Public Debt The Case of the Duchy of Guelders, 1350-1550 113 Jelle Haemers A Financial Revolution in Flanders? Public Debt, Representative Institutions, and Political Centralisation in the County of Flanders during the 1480s 135 Evaluation Wim Blockmans Regional Interactions. Some Afterthoughts 163 © BREPOLS PUBLISHERS THIS DOCUMENT MAY BE PRINTED FOR PRIVATE USE ONLY. vi IT MAY NOT BE DISTRIBUTED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE PUBLISHER. Personalia Wim Blockmans (1945) is emeritus professor at Leiden University. He mainly worked on state formation and representative institutions in late medieval Europe, and the Burgundian Netherlands in particular. His most recent books include Metropolen aan de Noordzee (2010) and Emperor Charles V 1500‑1558 (2002), revised as Karel V, Keizer van een wereldrijk (20124). Rudolf A.A. Bosch (1984) recieved his MA degree in History at the University of Groningen. Between 2008 and 2014 he was preparing his PhD thesis on the impact of political and economic transformations on urban societies and public finances in the Duchy of Guelders between c. 1350 and 1580 at the Groningen Research Institute for the Study of Culture. He has published on several aspects concerning the urban history in the Low Countries, more specifically the socio-economic history of towns in the Eastern Netherlands and the financial relations between the Duchy of Guelders and the German Lower Rhine area. Jean-Luc Demeulemeester (1965) is professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, the Political Science Department and at the Arts and Humanities Faculty. At Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management he is the co-director of the Centre for Economic and Financial History (joint with K. Oosterlinck and J.J. Heirwegh) of the Emile Bernheim Research centre CEB. He is the co-founder and co-editor (with Dora Costa, Berkeley, and Claude Diebolt, CNRS Strasbourg and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) of Cliometrica. A Journal of Historical Economics and Econometric History. Jelle Haemers (1980) was trained as an urban historian at the University of Ghent. He is professor at the department of Medieval History of the University of Leuven since 2010 and a member of the Jonge Academie of Belgium since 2013. He wrote his first book on the Ghent revolt of 1449-1453 (2004). In recent years his research interests have widened to encompass other kinds of social and political conflicts in the late medieval town, notably in the Low Countries (1100-1600). He also published on the use of social theory and auxiliary sciences in history, the late medieval nobility and the financial history of court and towns. He has completed his second book, on the political conflict between the Flemish cities and Maximilian of Austria in the 1480s (For the Common Good. State Power and Urban Revolts in the Reign of Mary of Burgundy, 1477‑1482 (2009)), which was awarded with the prestigious “Frans van Cauwelaert-prize” of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of Belgium. Most recently his De strijd om het regentschap over Filips de Schone. Opstand, geweld en facties in Brugge, Gent en Ieper (1482‑1488) was published (2014). His current major research project is a study of popular politics in the late medieval town. Marjolein ’t Hart (1955) specialised in early modern social and economic his- tory. After her graduation and PhD she held positions at various universities (Groningen, Leiden, Erasmus Rotterdam, VU University Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam, New School for Social Studies New York, Trinity College Dublin and Columbia vii Personalia University New York) and in various disciplines (history, sociology, political sciences). Her main publications include The Making of a Bourgeois State. War, Politics and Finance during the Dutch Revolt (1993); A Financial History of the Netherlands 1550‑1990 (1997); De wereld en Nederland. Een sociale en economische geschiedenis van de laatste duizend jaar (2011), and The Dutch Wars of Independence. Warfare and Commerce in the Netherlands 1570‑1680 (2014). Presently she is head of the research department of the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands in The Hague and professor History of State Formation in Global Perspective at VU University in Amsterdam. Peter (P.C.M.) Hoppenbrouwers (1954) is professor of Medieval History at Leiden University. He is the co-author, with Wim Blockmans of Introduction to Medieval Europe 300‑1500 (2014²). His main fields of interest are peasant communities, household and family, local lordship and military organisation, and cultures of violence in the medi- eval Latin West. David Kusman (1969), postdoctoral researcher associated with the Interuniversity Attraction Pole Program 7/26 “City & Society in the Low Countries (1200-1850)” at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, graduated from this university in 2008 with a doctorate in medieval history, published in 2013 in the Studies in European Urban History Series, 28, under the title: Usuriers publics et banquiers du Prince. Le rôle économique des financiers piémontais dans les villes du duché de Brabant (xiiie‑xiv e siècle). His current researches focus on credit and information during the Late Middle Ages. Bart Lambert (1981) was a research assistant at the University of York, working on the ahrc-funded project “England’s Immigrants, 1330-1550: Resident Aliens in the Later Middle Ages” and is presently lecturer at Durham University. He is the author of The City, the Duke and their Banker. The Rapondi Family and the Formation of the Burgundian State (1384‑1430) (2006), “Pouvoir et argent. La fiscalité d’État et la consommation du crédit des ducs de Bourgogne (1384-1506)” (Revue du Nord, 2009), “Bonnore Olivier: courtier de la fiscalité bourguignonne (1429-1466)” (Revue Belge de Philologie et d’Histoire, 2012) and “Friendly Foreigners: International Warfare, Resident Aliens and the Early History of Denization in England, c. 1250 -c. 1400” (English Historical Review, 2015). He is currently editing a volume on Luxury Textiles in Italy and the Low Countries during the Late Medieval and Early Modern Period , to be published with Ashgate. Remi van Schaïk (1950) studied History at the Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen and the University of Ghent. After research fellowships and teaching activities at the Universities of Nijmegen, Rotterdam and Groningen, he was working as a policy advisor for research in the Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen, and is senior lec- turer in Medieval History at the same university since 1995. He is publishing on financial, economic and social history, and on socio-religious history, especially of the northern and eastern Low Countries. His publications include De Tielse kroniek (1983, together with others), (1985), Walfridus van Bedum Belasting, bevolking en bezit in Gelre en Zutphen (1987), and substantial parts of (1350‑1550) Onder vele torens. Een geschiedenis van de gemeente Bedum (2002), and of the Geschiedenis van Groningen, vol. I (2008). Peter Stabel is professor of Medieval History at the University of Antwerp and member of the Antwerp based Centre for Urban History. He publishes on the social © BREPOLS PUBLISHERS THIS DOCUMENT MAY BE PRINTED FOR PRIVATE USE ONLY. viii IT MAY NOT BE DISTRIBUTED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE PUBLISHER. Personalia and economic history of the cities of the medieval and early modern Low Countries. His recent research interests cover craft guilds, textile manufacture, labour markets, gender and princely courts in the Low Countries and he is also studying the representation of urbanity and market regulation in the cities of the medieval Islamic world.