出版社：Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
摘要：In the European comparison Tuscany stands out by having the most important business archives (merchant, banking and manufacturing fi rms) for economic history of the later Middle Ages. The combined archives of Florence and Prato alone have around 2,500 account books, a fi gure greatly exceeding those available in the rest of Italy and Europe put together. The present paper considers the corporate account books published in the last 50 years, with reference, moreover, to the fi rst half of the XXth century. The aim is to emphasize the role played by accounting sources written by the merchants of Tuscan towns in latemedieval economic history.
