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.