LIV Study Week

Mezzi di scambio non monetari. Merci e servizi come monete alternative nelle economie dei secoli XIII-XVIII - Alternative currencies. Commodities and services as exchange currencies in the monetarized economies of the 13th to 18th centuries

Prato May 14th-18th 2023


manifesto 54 Settimana di studi

PROGRAMME

Sunday, 14 May

17.30, Sala Maggiore - Palazzo Comunale
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OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE:

Greetings
Matteo Biffoni - Mayor of Prato
Giammarco Piacenti - President of "F. Datini" Foundation
Eugenio Giani - President of Tuscany Region
Alessandra Petrucci - Magnificent Rector - University of Florence
Maria Elvira Mancino - Director of DISEI - University of Florence
Erik Aerts - President of the Scientific Committee

Inaugural speech
Philippe Bernardi (Parigi)


Monday, 15 May

Ridotto - Teatro Politeama Pratese
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09.00-13.00

I. MECCANISMI PER L'UTILIZZO DI MEZZI DI SCAMBIO NON MONETARI / MECHANISMS FOR USING ALTERNATIVE CURRENCIES

Thomas Max Safley (Philadelphia), Money and Its Alternatives in Early Modern Extractive Industry: The Many Media of Exchange in Mercury Mining
Giulio Ongaro, Luca Mocarelli (Milano), In kind wages between city and countryside: Northern Italy in the Eighteenth Century
Michela Barbot (Paris), Cedere aliud al posto del denaro dovuto. La dazione in pagamento fra teoria e prassi contrattuale (Francia e Italia, XVII-XVIII secolo)
Robert Braid (Montpellier), Unsticking Wages. Alternative Forms of Remuneration in Medieval Europe

Ridotto - Teatro Politeama Pratese
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15.00-18.00

I. MECCANISMI PER L'UTILIZZO DI MEZZI DI SCAMBIO NON MONETARI / MECHANISMS FOR USING ALTERNATIVE CURRENCIES

Aidan Collins (Staffordshire), Alternative Currencies in Debt Recovery: Bankruptcy in the Court of Chancery, 1674-1750
Thijs Lambrecht, Joke Verfaillie, Tom De Waele (Ghent), Lords, Peasantries and the Remuneration of Labour Services in the Southern Low Countries, 13th-18th Centuries
Natacha Coquery (Lyon), Guerre, dirigisme, approvisionnement. Les marchandises de luxe, monnaie d'échanges alternative sous la Terreur
Francine Michaud (Calgary), Alternative Currencies and Quality of Life in Late Thirteenth and Fourteenth-Century Marseille: Negotiating Labour in Times of Turmoil


• 18.00 - Meeting of the Scientific Committee

Tuesday, 16 May

Ridotto - Teatro Politeama Pratese
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09.00-13.00

II. LA DIFFUSIONE DEI MEZZI DI SCAMBIO NON MONETARI / THE DIFFUSION OF ALTERNATIVE CURRENCIES

Fabrizio Alias (Sassari), Uso e diffusione dei mezzi di scambio non monetari in Sardegna tra XIII e XIV secolo
Francesco Guidi Bruscoli (Firenze), 'Wherever they consider it more profitable, for cash, baratto or credit'. Florentine merchants and the export of silk cloth (15th-16th centuries)
Jaco Zuijderduijn, Ludwig Pelzl (Lund), Or do you prefer cash? Pensions in kind in pre-modern Germany and the Low Countries
Pierre-David Kusman, Jean-Luc De Meulemeester (Bruxelles), Negotiating the debt at the inn : the Leistinge custom in the Late Medieval Low Countries cities

Ridotto - Teatro Politeama Pratese
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15.00-18.00

II. LA DIFFUSIONE DEI MEZZI DI SCAMBIO NON MONETARI / THE DIFFUSION OF ALTERNATIVE CURRENCIES

Matthieu Scherman (Champs-sur-Marne), Il baratto monetizzato tra grandi mercanti: pratica comune nel XV secolo
Anne Kucab (Paris), Alternative currencies in Rouen at the end of the Middle Ages

• 18.00 - Meeting of the "Giunta" of the Scientific Committee

Wednesday, 17 May

Ridotto - Teatro Politeama Pratese
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09.00-13.00

III. NATURA DEI MEZZI DI SCAMBIO NON MONETARI / THE NATURE OF ALTERNATIVE CURRENCIES

Nenad Fejic (Martinique), An apparent paradox: wool as an alternative currency for merchants and weavers in Dubrovnik (Ragusa) in the 15th century
Lisa Caliste (Montpellier), Catherine Verna (Paris), Pratiche di "baratto", industrie e strategie individuali (Lodévois et Vallespir, XV secolo - 1550 circa)
Rachele Scuro (Venezia), Perle, gioie e pegni. Il ruolo dei preziosi nell'economia del credito, di garanzia e dello scambio nella Venezia cinquecentesca

Ridotto - Teatro Politeama Pratese
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15.00-18.00

III. NATURA DEI MEZZI DI SCAMBIO NON MONETARI / THE NATURE OF ALTERNATIVE CURRENCIES

William Caferro (Nashville), Alternate Currencies, Bills of Exchange and Warfare in Trecento Italy
Corine Maitte (Champs-sur-Marne), La part des anges ? Les rémunérations en nature entre truck system et considération sociale
Judicaël Petrowiste (Paris), Des poêles, des chaudrons et des couvertures. Payer ses impôts par des objets dans le bourg de Najac (1258-1273)


Thursday, 18 May

Ridotto - Teatro Politeama Pratese
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09.00-13.00

IV. USI DEI MEZZI DI SCAMBIO NON MONETARI / USES OF ALTERNATIVE CURRENCIES

Alexandra Sapoznik (London), Lluís Sales i Favà (Lisboa), Wax, cash and the mass. Making candles affordable in late medieval economies
Tim Soens, Cécile Bruyet (Antwerp), Farm to spoon. In-kind food deliveries by tenant farmers in late medieval cities
Julie Claustre (Paris), Les vêtements et leur fabrication comme monnaies alternatives (Paris, XVe siècle)
Elizabeth Comuzzi (New York), Payment in Services and the Cloth-Dyeing Industry in Fourteenth-century Puigcerdà


Ridotto - Teatro Politeama Pratese
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15.00-18.00

IV. USI DEI MEZZI DI SCAMBIO NON MONETARI / USES OF ALTERNATIVE CURRENCIES

Daniel Strum (São Paulo/Philadelphia), Bartering inequalities: gender, race and religion in the sixteenth-century Atlantic
Alejandra Irigoin (London), “Trusting silver”: the contract for global trade finance in the Early Modern period


CONCLUSION – Round Table

Natacha Coquery (Lyon)
Philippe Bernardi (Paris)
William Caferro (Nashville)
Luca Mocarelli (Milano)

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