Universität Wien

070330 SE Seminar - The Economies of Late Medieval/Early Renaissance Florence and Venice Compared (2024S)

8.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
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An/Abmeldung

Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

Details

max. 25 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Dienstag 19.03. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 18 Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
  • Dienstag 09.04. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital
  • Dienstag 16.04. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital
  • Dienstag 23.04. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 18 Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
  • Dienstag 30.04. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 18 Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
  • Dienstag 07.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 18 Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
  • Dienstag 14.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 18 Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
  • Dienstag 21.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 18 Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
  • Dienstag 28.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 18 Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
  • Dienstag 04.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 18 Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
  • Dienstag 11.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital
  • Dienstag 18.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 18 Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
  • Dienstag 25.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 18 Kolingasse 14-16, OG02

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

By the end of the course, students will be familiar with the written, visual, and material sources of
economic history of Florence and Venice in the 14th-15th centuries. They will consolidate their skills
in fours specific areas: public speaking, peer-to-peer feedback, guided discussion, academic writing.

Proto-globalization/first global age, early capitalism, Commercial revolution, public debt, merchant-
banks, households, workshops, the economies of fashion, war, and artistic production, merchant
networks, the material turn in economic history
1. Week: Introduction: Florence and Venice compared
2. Week: Proto-globalization/first global age, early capitalism, Commercial revolution
3. Week: The economy of war
4. Week: Public debt and taxation
5. Week: The economy of households
6. Week: The economy of workshops
7. Week: The precious metal industries
8. Week: The fashion industries
9. Week: The fashion industries, the material turn
10. Week: The economy of artistic production
11. Week: Merchant-banks
12. Week: Merchant networks
13. Week: Feedback

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

1. Reading the assignment for each class
2. Active participation in discussions
3. Written peer feedback on the presentations
4. One oral presentation based on the topic of their seminar papers
5. Seminar paper: the methodological analysis of a source/a set of sources (min. 35.000
characters including spaces, 1½ space, 12 font size, footnotes, title page, bibliography, without
images, plus a 200-words abstract in English, five keywords in English)
The primary language of the course is English. Written exercises and seminar papers in German and some other languages are possible.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Grading will be based on four components:
1. Seminar participation (20%)
2. Peer feedback (20%)
3. Oral presentation (20%)
4. Final essay (40%)
2 unjustified absances are allowed

Prüfungsstoff

Literatur

Caferro, William, Petrarch's War: Florence and the Black Death in Context, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2018.
Franceschi, Franco, Big Business for Firms and States: Silk Manufacturing in Renaissance Italy,
Business History Review 94 (Spring 2020), pp. 95 ? 105.
Florence and the Black Death in Context
Goldthwaite, Richard A. 2009. The Economy of Renaissance Florence, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University.
Molà, Luca: 2000. The Silk Industry of Renaissance Venice, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press.
Mueller, Reinhold C. 2017. The Venetian Money Market: Banks, Panics, and the Public Debt, 1200-
1500, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Najemy, John, A History of Florence, 1200-1575, Blackwell, 2006.
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Trivellato, Francesca, Renaissance Florence, and the Origins of Capitalism: A Business History
Perspective, Business History Review, 2020-01, Vol. 94 (1), p.229-251.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Schwerpunkte: Mittelalter, Neuzeit, Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, Hist.-kult. Europaforschung

MA Geschichte (Version 2019): PM4 Individuelle Schwerpunktsetzung, SE Seminar (8 ECTS).
MEd UF GSP: UF MA GSP 01 Fachwissenschaft, Vertiefungsseminar 1: Quellenkunde und Quellenkritik (6 ECTS).

Letzte Änderung: Mo 22.04.2024 09:05