TY  - ADVS
AU  - Terpstra,Nicholas
AU  - Leesti,Elizabeth
ED  - Films for the Humanities (Firm)
TI  - The invention of banking
T2  - First light : Tuscany and the dawn of the Renaissance
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Princeton, NJ.
PB  - Films for the Humanities & Sciences
KW  - Documentary films
KW  - Banks and banking
KW  - History
KW  - Merchant banks
KW  - Fourteenth century
KW  - Tuscany (Italy)
N1  - 'A presentation of Films for the Humanities & Sciences'; Interviews with Nicholas Terpstra and Dr. Elizabeth Leesti, historians at the University of Toronto, are featured
N2  - In 13th- and 14th-century Tuscany, money became the new tool of power as industry, trade, and finance flourished. This program follows the remarkable rise of the great banking families whose groundbreaking innovations in finance led to the economics of international big business practiced today. Merchant bankers also supported the aims of the Catholic Church by using their extraordinary wealth to become patrons for charities and spectacular works of art and architecture
ER  -