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Over the course of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, European society confronted rapid monetization, a process that has been examined in depth by economic historians. Less well understood is the development of architecture to meet the needs of a burgeoning mercantile economy in the Late Middle Ages and early modern period. In this volume, Lauren Jacobi explores some of the repercussions of early capitalism through a study of the location and types of spaces that were used for banking and minting in Florence and other mercantile centers in Europe. Examining the historical relationships between banks and religious behavior, she also analyzes how urban geographies and architectural forms reveal moral attitudes toward money during the onset of capitalism. Jacobi's book offers new insights into the spaces and locations where pre-industrial European banking and minting transpired, as well as the impact of religious concerns and financial tools on those sites.

Bank buildings --- Mints --- Architecture and society --- Banks and banking --- Renaissance --- ARCHITECTURE / General. --- Agricultural banks --- Banking --- Banking industry --- Commercial banks --- Depository institutions --- Finance --- Financial institutions --- Money --- Architecture --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- Coinage --- Bank facilities --- Commercial buildings --- History. --- Social aspects --- Human factors

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"Land Air Sea: Architecture and Environment in the Early Modern Era posits that the long Renaissance and eighteenth century are vital for understanding how many of the concerns present in current debates on climate change and sustainability were already developed in earlier centuries. Traversing three physical and intellectual domains, Land Air Sea consists of case studies that examine how questions of sustainability were formulated and addressed in early modern architecture and the built environment. With respect to emergent technologies, indigenous cultural beliefs, natural philosophy, and political statecraft, the book aims to transform our modernist conceptions of what buildings are by studying early modern approaches to human impacts on the habitable world"--

Architecture --- Human ecology --- Environmental aspects --- History.

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The concepts of purity and contamination preoccupied early modern Europeans fundamentally, structuring virtually every aspect of their lives, not least how they created and experienced works of art and the built environment. In an era that saw a great number of objects and people in motion, the meteoric rise of new artistic and building technologies, and religious upheaval exert new pressures on art and its institutions, anxieties about the pure and the contaminated - distinctions between the clean and unclean, sameness and difference, self and other, organization and its absence - took on heightened importance. In this series of geographically and methodologically wide-ranging essays, thirteen leading historians of art and architecture grapple with the complex ways that early modern actors negotiated these concerns, covering topics as diverse as Michelangelo's unfinished sculptures, Venetian plague hospitals, Spanish-Muslim tapestries, and emergency currency. The resulting volume offers surprising new insights into the period and into the modern disciplinary routines of art and architectural history.

Art, European. --- Art, Renaissance. --- Architecture, European. --- Architecture, Renaissance. --- Purity (Philosophy) --- Contamination (Psychology) --- Art. --- architecture. --- contamination. --- materials. --- purity.

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