Francesca Trivellato
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A leading historian of early modern Italy and continental Europe, Francesca Trivellato has made significant and groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of the organization and culture of the marketplace in the pre-industrial world. Trivellato's original and imaginative research has revitalized the study of early economic history, and her influential work on cross-cultural trade intersects the fields of European, Jewish, Mediterranean, and global history, religion, and capitalism.
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- 1751 and Thereabout: A Quantitative and Comparative Approach to Notarial Records(2022-08)
;Trivellato, FrancescaLemercier, Claire241 155 - The Business History of the Preindustrial World: Towards a Comparative Historical Analysis(Taylor and Francis Online, 2018)
;Trivellato, FrancescaGelderblom, OscarThe organisation of business transactions in the preindustrial period, once a central concern in scholarly debates about the rise of capitalism, currently plays only a marginal role in the literature on long-run economic development. Our survey of the contents of five top-tier business and economic history journals published in the United Kingdom and the United States from 2000 to 2016 finds that only 20 per cent of the articles concern the entire period before 1800 and that, among those articles, most are national or regional in scope, with a disproportionate focus on Europe, and on England in particular. At the same time, our survey suggests that a strong theoretical foundation and rich empirical data exist on the basis of which we can develop a comparative business history of the preindustrial world. We identify four areas of enquiry that are especially conducive to further comparisons within and beyond Europe: the corporation, the family firms, the economic role of women, and the funding of private businesses.276 263 - Gino Luzzatto and the Contested Place of Jews in the Economic History of Mediterranean Europe(Routledge, 2022-11-01)
;Trivellato, FrancescaMunari, TommasoThe few Anglophone readers for whom the name Gino Luzzatto (1878–1964) still has a familiar ring know him as an economic historian of medieval Europe, with a focus on Italy and on Mediterranean trade. But throughout his career he also cultivated a consistent if secondary interest in Jewish history and weighed in on controversial debates on the role of Jews in the development of Western capitalism. A socialist and an assimilated Jew, Luzzatto was persecuted first for his political ideas and later as a consequence of Mussolini’s Racial Laws. This article examines his largely forgotten contributions to the economic history of medieval and early modern Italian Jews in order to illuminate a little-known chapter in the ever-contentious relationship between economic history and Jewish history. By placing Luzzatto alongside his contemporaries, it elucidates his commitment to integrate Jewish history into general European history and compares his approach to competing interpretations dating from the inter- war and immediate post-war periods. It thus broadens our knowledge of the range of scholarly traditions that have sustained the study of Jews’ economic roles before the current revival of interest in the topic.60 101 - Gli abitanti del ghetto di Venezia in età moderna: dati e ipotesi(2004)
;Trivellato, FrancescaFavero, Giovanni171 146 - Is There a Future for Italian Microhistory in the Age of Global History?(University of California, 2011)Trivellato, FrancescaAt first sight, global history and microhistory have little in common, and this essay takes stock of where their methods and goals diverge. But in the past two decades a host of scholars have written microhistorically-inflected studies of men and women whose lives transcended narrowly bounded geographical, religious, and linguistic areas. The article assesses what these studies have in common with and how they differ from the main contributions that Italian microhistorians articulated in publications, which appeared from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s. It then suggests complementary and alternative ways of drawing inspiration from Italian microhistory to nourish the future agenda of global history.
943 975 - Max Weber’s Ghosts in the Economic History of Pre-Industrial Europe(2023)Trivellato, Francesca
5 13 - Mercanti ebrei nell’Italia del Rinascimento(Museo Nazionale dell'Ebraismo Italiano e della Shoah, 2019)Trivellato, Francesca
212 535 - Prefazione(Casa editrice Israel; Il Prato, 2019)
;Trivellato, FrancescaLuzzatto Voghera, Gadi147 66 - What Differences Make a Difference? Global History and Microanalysis Revisited(Brill, 2023-03-01)Trivellato, FrancescaThis article discusses a number of scholarly trends that fall under the rubric of global history, with particular regard for those that address the early modern period (c.1400–1800). It stresses the rubric’s lack of coherence from both a methodological and ideological perspective. Most importantly, it revisits longstanding debates about the intersection of microanalysis and global history by assessing landmark works by Italian microhistorians, scholars of the so-called great divergence, and historians of climate and the environment. In so doing, it also asks how recent contributions build on insights that classic studies had already yielded – at least on the margins of the profession – beginning in the 1970s.
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