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Bankers to the Crown: The Riccardi of Lucca and Edward I
By (Author) Richard W. Kaeuper
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
19th May 2015
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
332.11094
Paperback
300
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
397g
Throughout the thirteenth century Western European monarchs were hampered by the failure of their traditional revenues to meet their new expenses. Edward I of England solved the primary problem of acquiring adequate funds with the imposition of a duty on wool and leather and by more frequent direct taxes. But collection was slow and irregular; ther