Risky markets: marine insurance in Renaissance Florence

Introduction -- Institutions: Contracts and Legislation -- Trade and Insurance: Routes -- Trade and Insurance: Goods -- Trade and Insurance: Seacraft -- The Premium: Structural Factors -- The Premium: Contingent Factors -- The Florentine Insurance Market Within the European Context -- The Market and Its Operators: Demand -- The Market and Its Operators: Supply -- The Market and Its Operators: Techniques and Organisational -- The Market and Its Operators: The "Risk Experts" -- Institutions Again: Informal Safeguards -- Conclusions.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword to This Edition -- Tables and Charts -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Note on Dates, Names and Currencies -- Chapter 1 Institutions: Contracts and Legislation -- Chapter 2 Trade and Insurance: Routes -- Chapter 3 Trade and Insurance: Goods -- Chapter 4 Trade and Insurance: Seacraft -- Chapter 5 The Premium: Structural Factors -- Chapter 6 The Premium: Contingent Factors -- Chapter 7 The Florentine Insurance Market Within the European Context -- Chapter 8 The Market and Its Operators: Demand -- Chapter 9 The Market and Its Operators: Supply -- Chapter 10 The Market and Its Operators: Techniques and Organisational -- Chapter 11 The Market and Its Operators: The "Risk Experts" -- Chapter 12 Institutions Again: Informal Safeguards -- Conclusions -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Bibliography -- Index.