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Fuggers

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Fuggers
16th-century German financiers. [Ger. Hist.: NCE, 1023–1024]
See : Wealth


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He compares known expenditures for other contemporary projects as a gauge before concluding that, apart from the unfinished brass grille, the Fuggers spent about 15,000-16,000 gulden on their chapel.
The northern Renaissance along the Rhine and the Loire, the Atlantic trade routes spreading out in the sixteenth century, the part played by the Fuggers and the Hanseatic towns, alongside their Italian banking colleagues, in the establishment of new patterns of European commerce - all these steps toward a recognizably modern world are included in the new book.
Bushart stresses more than previous commentators the connections between the Fuggers and their emperor, Maximilian I.
 
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