Lawrin Armstrong

Lawrin Armstrong is an associate professor at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto. As of September, 2007, he is the acting director of the Centre, to be replaced in 2008 by John Magee, the current acting chair of the Classics department.

He is an expert in the issue of late-medieval European banking. Among his published articles are "The Politics of Usury in Trecento Florence: The Questio de monte of Francesco da Empoli." (Mediaeval Studies 61 (1999)) and "Usury, Conscience and Public Debt: Angelo Corbinelli's Testament of 1419." in , an anthology edited by John A. Marino and Thomas Kuehn.