Money has shaped civilizations for centuries, but in Medieval Europe, it didn’t work the way we think today. The rise of ...

Given that he was a member of the famously ascetic Franciscan order with his own reputation for detachment from worldly things, St. Bernardine of Siena (1380-1444) was remarkably insightful about ...

The failed prince of supply-chain financing and his credulous creditors should have heeded the cautionary lessons of medieval banking about the dangers of mixing finance with politics. The collapse of ...