This project investigates how Genoese merchant-bankers linked the Mediterranean to the early Atlantic economy in the 15th–16th centuries. By analyzing hundreds of thousands of fragmented notarial deeds with digital methods, it reconstructs the circulation of people, goods, and capital that laid the foundations for Atlantic slavery and early capitalism.
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This project investigates how Genoese merchant-bankers linked the Mediterranean to the early Atlantic economy in the 15th–16th centuries. By analyzing hundreds of thousands of fragmented notarial deeds with digital methods, it reconstructs the circulation of people, goods, and capital that laid the foundations for Atlantic slavery and early capitalism.
This project investigates how Genoese merchant-bankers linked the Mediterranean to the early Atlantic economy in the 15th–16th centuries. By analyzing hundreds of thousands of fragmented notarial deeds with digital methods, it reconstructs the circulation of people, goods, and capital that laid the foundations for Atlantic slavery and early capitalism.