This article is about the medieval community of merchants and financiers. Not to be confused with the inhabitants of Cahors, who in modern usage are referred to as Cadurciens.
Place de la Libération, formerly known as place au Change in Cahors, in the Middle Ages a hub of activity of the Cahorsins[1]: 14
The Cahorsins were merchants and financiers from the French city of Cahors and the surrounding region of Quercy during the High Middle Ages. During their 13th-century heyday, they were among the most prominent communities of Christian long-distance traders outside of Italy, and were particularly prominent in commerce between England and its continental lands of the Duchy of Aquitaine. They declined rapidly from around 1300 CE, but their name long remained synonymous with usury in much of Western Europe.[2][3]
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echoed Dante's disparaging references to Cahorsins in commentary of his own.: 230 References to usurers as Cahorsins were widespread in late medieval Germany...
Description of the Money Market Cahorsins Mount of piety History of pawnbroking Yves Renouard (1961), "Les Cahorsins, hommes d'affaires Français du XIIIe...
emerged primarily in Southern Europe (including Southern France, with the Cahorsins). Banks could use book money to create deposits for their customers. Thus...
It was also notorious at that time for the financiers widely known as Cahorsins, Christians who charged interest on their loans. The church in these times...
reform against money lending and the related sin of usury associated with Cahorsins and Lombards. It was primarily promoted by Franciscans such as Barnabas...
century. In the 13th century, it was shipped to England via Bordeaux by the Cahorsins traders. Later on, the Cahors "black wine" was sold shipped from England...
Born in 1244, Jacques was the son of Arnaud Duèze, who was probably a Cahorsin merchant or banker. He studied canon law at Montpellier and theology in...
could charge varied between two or three pence per pound per week. The Cahorsins and Lombards could charge as much as 50 per cent; the Jews did not have...
concerning the poverty of Christ and the Apostles. He died at Avignon. Cahorsins Cardinals created by John XXII Konrad Eubel: Hierarchia Catholica Medii...
Christian pawnbrokers and money-lenders, the latter often referred to as Cahorsins and Lombards, were common in medieval Europe, where they were often tolerated...
Limbo. Purg. XXII, 97. Cahors: Town in France that was notorious for its Cahorsins, Christian financiers who engaged in usury that was then considered sinful...
finances were transferred to Florentine banking institutions as well. Cahorsins Taula de canvi de Barcelona de Roover, Raymond A., and Larson, Henrietta...
the credit business. However, Christian lenders, often referred to as Cahorsins or Lombards, often charged interest much greater than Jewish lenders....
Aveyron rivers converge. At the expense of Moissac Abbey, the austere cahorsin Jacques Duez, Pope under the name John XXII, seals the domination by creating...
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