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
Continuous assessment of course work
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Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

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

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

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

Assessment and permitted materials

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.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

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

Examination topics

Reading list

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.
Trivellato, Francesca, Renaissance Florence, and the Origins of Capitalism: A Business History
Perspective, Business History Review, 2020-01, Vol. 94 (1), p.229-251.

Association in the course directory

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).

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