Frederic chapin Lane

(1900 -- 1984 ), American historian who earned his doctorate at Harvard University under Abbott Payson Usher in 1930 and was professor of history at the Johns Hopkins University until his retirement in 1966 .

Lane's primary research interest was the economic and social history of medieval and early modern Venice. He began his career with a book on the Venetian arsenal, Venetian Ships and Shipbuilders of the Renaissance (Baltimore, 1934 ; in French, 1965 ), and he ended it with one dedicated to the history of medieval Venetian monies, Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice, Continue reading the remaining 88% ...