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46834-01 - Übung: Connecting markets: banking networks between Italy and Western Europe in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (3 KP)
| Semester | Frühjahrsemester 2017 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Rachele Scuro (rachele.scuro@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | During the Middle Ages Italy became the cradle of a series of crucial innovations in the field of entrepreneurship and banking. From Italy a new group of merchants and moneylenders, the so called lombards, spread north of the Alps offering their service to anyone demanding, from kings to peasants. Rapid rises and disastrous bankruptcies followed one another for many of those pioneers, but they were the founders of the new idea of credit on which Renaissance banking planted its routes, and subsequently the concept of modern finance. The process started led to an evolution not confined to the economic field, but with consequences at every level, from the political and fiscal management to the history of secular and religious thought. The course will explore the development of the European credit market from the Later Middle Ages to the Renaissance through the business of Italian merchant-bankers and classes will analyse the strategic role the new financial system played on a continental basis. This process will be highlighted by the description of the complex networks linking the most important market centres in Western Europe to the main financial (and trade) centres of Florence, Venice and Genoa, by means of the branches of Italian companies. The fact that commodity trading was linked to the credit market not only because the latter was a mean for the first, but also because trade had a solid role into the business diversification conducted by banking companies will be a subject of analysis too. |
| Literatur | Raymond de Roover, The rise and decline of the Medici Bank, 1397-1494, Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.) 1967. Frederic C. Lane and Reinhold C. Mueller, Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice, vol. I: Coins and Moneys of Account, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore-London 1985 and vol. II: The Venetian Money Market: Banks, Panics and the Public Debt, 1200-1500, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore-London 1997. |
| Teilnahmevoraussetzungen | Studierende der Geschichte aller Studienstufen |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Modul Analysefelder: Akteure - Erfahrungen - Praktiken (Master Studiengang: Europäische Geschichte) Modul Ereignisse, Prozesse, Zusammenhänge (Master Studienfach: Geschichte (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Kommunikation und Vermittlung historischer Erkenntnisse (Master Studienfach: Geschichte (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Methoden und Diskurse historischer Forschung (Master Studienfach: Geschichte (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Profil: Renaissance (Master Studiengang: Europäische Geschichte) Modul Profil: Vormoderne (Master Studiengang: Europäische Geschichte) Wahlbereich Bachelor Geschichte: Empfehlungen (Bachelor Studienfach: Geschichte (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Wahlbereich Bachelor Geschichte: Empfehlungen (Bachelor Studienfach: Geschichte) Wahlbereich Master Geschichte: Empfehlungen (Master Studienfach: Geschichte) |
| Prüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Prüfung | Aktive Teilnahme. |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Belegen bei Nichtbestehen | nicht wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Departement Geschichte |