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        <title type="main" level="a">Pour une approche globale des faillites florentines: premiers éléments d’analyse sérielle des procès devant le tribunal de la Mercanzia (1329-1350)</title>
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            <forename>Cédric</forename>
            <surname>Quertier</surname>
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          <resp>This is a section of <title>Gestione del rischio, insolvenza e bancarotta nel mondo premoderno (secc. XIII-XVIII) / Risk management, insolvency, and bankruptcy in the pre-modern world (13th-18th centuries)</title>(DOI: <idno type="DOI">10.36253/979-12-215-0963-2</idno>) by </resp>
          <name>Angela Orlandi</name>
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        <publisher>Firenze University Press</publisher>
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        <date when="2026">2026</date>
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        <p>Florentine historiography, which focuses on the practical resolution of exceptional cases, contrasts with legal historiography based on systemic analysis disconnected from the concrete resolution of conflicts. To challenge this false impression of familiarity, we offer here an initial summary of the serial analysis of bankruptcy proceedings before the Florentine Mercanzia court from 1329 to 1350.
To do this, we first demonstrate the banality of the bankruptcy procedure, which was formalised at the beginning of the century in the institution's statutes. Afterward, we conduct a serial and longitudinal analysis of the trials to identify developments, using two lists and HTR's identification of occurrences of bankruptcy in 95 court records. Eventually, cross-referencing the data also allows us to sketch out a geography and sociology of the operators who went bankrupt.</p>
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