Долговые обязательства и векселя в практике иностранных займов английской короны в середине XVI в.

Средние века. 2020. Т. 81. № 2. С. 46–74.

Aleksandrova M.

English royal borrowing from foreign merchants on the Antwerp bourse from 1544 to 1574 is a well-know phenomenon. It is not clear yet how exactly the royal loans were formalized. This article seeks to reconstruct the use of certain financial instruments, such as bonds and bills of exchange, in contracting loans for the English crown. Multiple evidence is scattered in literature, some authors stating the English royal loans to be exchange lending transactions. The reconstruction of borrowing practices of the crown shows that this understanding is false. The historiographical account of the article investigates what nourished such an opinion. The research is based on the official correspondence of Thomas Gresham (ca. 1518–1579), the English royal financial agent in the Netherlands in 1550–1560s.

Keywords: bond, foreign exchange, вексель, Томас Грэшем, королевские займы, Анлия XVI века, Sixteenth Century, royal borrowing, Thomas Gresham, долговое обязательство, bill of exchange, обмен иностранной монеты

Publication based on the results of: ­­­Cultural models of medieval Europe (2020)