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When did Antwerp replace Bruges as the commercial and financial centre of north‐western Europe? The evidence of the Borromei ledger for 14381

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  • J. L. BOLTON
  • FRANCESCO GUIDI BRUSCOLI

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The rise of Antwerp and the decline of Bruges are often seen in terms of a timetable of significant events: the establishment of the English cloth staple in Antwerp in 1421; the arrival of the south German merchants with their silver in the 1460s; and finally the transfer of the Portuguese spice market to the city in 1498. The 1438 ledger of a Milanese bank in Bruges suggests that by then the south Germans were well established at Antwerp and the Scheldt fairs, exporting large quantitites of fustian. It also shows the bank's integrated commercial and financial operation based on Bruges, Antwerp, Bergen, and Middleburg.

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  • J. L. Bolton & Francesco Guidi Bruscoli, 2008. "When did Antwerp replace Bruges as the commercial and financial centre of north‐western Europe? The evidence of the Borromei ledger for 14381," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 61(2), pages 360-379, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ehsrev:v:61:y:2008:i:2:p:360-379
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2007.00397.x
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    1. Murray,James M., 2005. "Bruges, Cradle of Capitalism, 1280–1390," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9780521819213, January.
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    1. Jim Bolton & Francesco Guidi‐Bruscoli, 2021. "‘Your flexible friend’: the bill of exchange in theory and practice in the fifteenth century," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 74(4), pages 873-891, November.
    2. De Vijlder, Nicolas, 2012. "A macroeconomic analysis of the land market in the count of Flanders and the duchy of Brabant. (fifteenth and sixteenth century)," MPRA Paper 39283, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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