Charlemagne instituted principles for accounting practice by means of the Capitulare de Villas of 802, which laid down strict rules for the way in which incomes and expenses were to be recorded. Early in Charlemagne's rule he tacitly allowed the Jews to monopolize money lending.
Romanticism definitely had its start in Europe. Most notably in England, France, and Germany with England being the one to first coin the phrase in the 1840's.
