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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- ‘Amphibious Power’: The Law of Wreck, Maritime Customs, and Sovereignty in Richelieu's France(American Society for Legal History, 2015-11)Trivellato, Francesca
164 223 - Between Usury and the ‘Spirit of Commerce’: Images of Jews and Credit from Montesquieu to the Debate on Emancipation in Eighteenth-Century France(Duke University Press, 2016-10)Trivellato, FrancescaBy bringing French history and Jewish history into dialogue, this article intervenes in the vast scholarship on the relationship between commerce and toleration in eighteenth-century French thought. It focuses on the place of Jews in Montesquieu’s ideas about doux commerce and explores the legacy of Montesquieu’s views on the debate on Jewish emancipation in the 1770s and 1780s. It traces the survival and adaptation of the medieval trope of the Jewish usurer in a variety of discourses, ranging from irenic images of commercial cosmopolitanism to representations of Jewish moneylending marshaled by radical advocates of Jewish “regeneration.” The article concludes by showing that in 1790–91 the doctrine of doux commerce did not provide a consistent argument in favor of civic and political equality even though commercial practices and policies in the French Southwest had favored the integration of Jews during the Old Regime.
125 197 - Credit, Honor, and the Early Modern French Legend of the Jewish Invention of Bills of Exchange(The University of Chicago, 2012-06)Trivellato, Francesca
184 374 - Credito e cittadinanza nella republica dei mercanti visti attraverso la diaspora sefardita nell'Europa moderna(2013)
;Trivellato, FrancescaTodeschini, GiacomoThis essay inquires into the continuity and discontinuity between the Middle Ages and the early modern period with regard to the legal and symbolic forms of Jewish belonging to the « republic of merchants », an expression which I interpret as analogous to what today we call impersonal markets. It synthesizes published research and outlines future research projects with the aim of offering new analytical categories and solid empirical studies to unravel the nexus of market exchange and religious toleration. The contribution begins by examining the ideological construction of this nexus in the primary sources and in the history of European economic thought. It then surveys a variety of credit relations that Jews and Christians established across Western Europe. A principal objective of this analysis is to determine whether and what influence antisemitic collective stereotypes had on the credibility of individual Jewish economic actors. This objective requires a wide-ranging approach that includes : the re-examination of classic texts of the European enlightenment and eighteenth-century political economy ; the systematic gathering of data about credit obligations between Jews and Christians that entailed different degrees of risks ; and finally, detailed comparisons across different regions of Europe.198 78 - Economic and Business History as Cultural History: Pitfalls and Possibilities(2019)Trivellato, Francesca
303 173 - Forum on David Nirenberg, Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition (New York: W.W. Norton, 2013)(2014)Trivellato, Francesca
209 377 - Gino Luzzatto e l’archivio storico della comunità ebraica di Livorno(2020)
;Trivellato, FrancescaMunari, Tommaso266 420 - Juifs de Livourne, Italiens de Lisbonne et hindous de Goa: Réseaux marchands et échanges culturels à l’époque moderne(Éditions de l'EHESS, 2003)Trivellato, FrancescaThis essay attempts to delineate a network approach to the study of cross-cultural trade in the Early Modern period. To do so, the author borrows from the British tradition of network analysis – understood in analytical rather than mathematical terms – and the works of Fredrik Barth. In the context of current debates on “trading diasporas” and “merchant networks”, a network approach has three invaluable advantages. It allows historians to analyze inter-group (rather than intragroup) relations, and thus overcome a limitation common to both anthropological and economic approaches. Moreover, it narrows the gap that divides anthropological studies (focused on the internal organization of trading diasporas and the role of cultural norms) and a rational theory understanding of merchant coalitions as the product of self-interested individual actions. Finally, because it is micro-analytical, a network approach allows historians to examine the workings of specific informal networks that traversed commonly defined geographical, political and cultural areas, and thus complicates our understanding of supposedly linear macro-phenomena. The operational validity of such an approach, based on business correspondence, is tested using a case study concerning the Indo-Portuguese (rather than the Anglo-Dutch) branch of Mediterranean coral and Indian diamond exchanges. Jews of Leghorn, Amsterdam and London were connected with the Italian merchants of Lisbon and a Hindu caste of Goa. This informal network remained vital until at least the 1730s.
158 101 - La missione diplomatica a Venezia del fiorentino Giannozzo Manetti a metà Quattrocento(1994)Trivellato, Francesca
201 143 - La naissance d’une légende: Juifs et finance dans l’imaginaire bordelais du XVIIe siècle(2014)Trivellato, Francesca
206 312 - Le anime dei demografi: Fonti per la rilevazione dello stato della popolazione di Venezia nei secoli XVI e XVII(1991)
;Trivellato, Francesca ;Favero, Giovanni ;Moro, Maria ;Spinelli, PierpaoloVianello, Francesco278 97 - Les juifs d’origine portugaise entre Livourne, le Portugal et la Méditerranée (c. 1650-1750)(2004)Trivellato, Francesca
161 95 - Lettres de change: confiance et malaise du crédit commercial dans l’Europe moderne(2021)Trivellato, Francesca
279 89 - Renaissance Florence and the Origins of Capitalism: A Business History Perspective(2020)Trivellato, Francesca
322 1128 - Salaires et justice dans les corporations vénitiennes au 17e siècle: Le cas des manufactures de verre(1999)Trivellato, Francesca
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