Today I learned on Nostr: TIL The black death caused an inflation of dowries in medieval Florence which the ...

TIL The black death caused an inflation of dowries in medieval Florence which the government solved by establishing a public dowry fund: when a girl turned 5, families would deposit on the dowry bank on her behalf, which would accrue about 10% a year and would be withdrawn when she got married

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