Francesca Trivellato

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Francesca Trivellato at the Festival of Economics in Trento in 2018

Francesca Trivellato (* 1970 in Padua ) is an Italian historian, professor and book author.

Life

Francesca Trivellato graduated from the University of Venice with a Bachelor of Arts in 1995 . She achieved a Ph.D. in 1999. in economic and social history at the Luigi Bocconi University of Economics in Milan and in 2004 another Ph.D. in history from Brown University .

From 2001 to 2003 Trivellato was an assistant professor in Venice for early modern European history. From 2004 to 2007 she was an assistant professor of history at Yale University , and in 2007 she was promoted to professor at the same university. In 2012 she became the Frederick W. Hilles Professor, in 2017 the Barton M. Biggs Professor. She was also visiting professor at Monash University , École des hautes études en sciences sociales (2010, 2017), California Institute of Technology (2012) and Paris Institute of Political Studies (2016). In July 2018, she joined the Faculty of History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey . She has received grants from the Fulbright Scholarship, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study , American Council of Learned Societies , John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and American Academy in Berlin . She has also been co-editor of American Historical Review since 2017 and has held the same position on the Journal of Economic History (2012–16), Jewish History (2011–15) and the Journal of Modern History (2010–12).

Act

Trivellato specializes in the area of ​​the early modern history of Italy, Europe and the Mediterranean , with a focus on culture and organization of the marketplace in a pre-industrial phase using case studies. She is positioned as an important representative of methodological microhistory . Trivellato also works, for example, on social groups in an early modern context, maritime and commercial law, Italy in the Renaissance and the Muslim Mediterranean area, micro and global history .

In an essay on microhistory, she mentions the importance of carefully processing and analyzing networks in order to understand how relationships develop and consolidate and how the distribution of power works. Her works made a significant contribution to understanding the organization and culture of the market in the pre-industrial era . She has a fundamentally positive attitude towards the new development of combining micro-history and global history. She assumes that the tradition of Italian microhistory, with an effort to use method and careful reflection and relativization of case studies and major narratives, can have a positive influence on global history and thus increase the importance of microhistory.

reception

In The Familiarity of Strangers , Trivellato uses the example of the Sephardic Jews from Livorno to deal with intercultural trade in the 17th and 18th centuries. In the book she shows that intercultural trading creates familiarity between strangers and coexists with religious prejudice.

In it, I attempted to do more than restore agency to an oppressed group or bring to light obscure commercial routes, and I have engaged with current debates in the humanities and social sciences about the analytical value of the ubiquitous term 'cosmopolitanism' and the role of culture and institutions in the rise of European commercial capitalism. Let me recapitulate briefly some of the insights that I borrowed and adapted from Italian microhistorians, while not limiting my inquiry to one location or one individual.

Trivellato received much praise from the critics and received the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award and the Leo Gershoy Prize for her work in 2010 . According to Edward Muir , Trivellato offers “communitarian cosmopolitanism as a new and promising model for the understanding of intercultural economic relations” and is therefore trend-setting “for future works in the social history of early modern commerce”. According to Yosef Kaplan , Trivellato's monograph is “Global History in Miniature” and one of the best books on the “Western, Sephardic Diaspora” of the last twenty years. He emphasizes that Trivellato includes elements of economic and anthropological theory in her micro-historical work.

Trivellato's work The Promise and Peril of Credit deals with the constructed legend of the Jews as the inventors of change . She traces the origin of this narrative and shows how Christian writers used it to define the limits of creditworthiness in the modern world. According to Jacob Soll , Trivellato's "excellent book" illustrates the necessity and power of "believable history" in order to confront "corrosive and dangerous legends" that persist today.

Fonts

  • Fondamenta dei vetrai: lavoro, tecnologia e mercato a Venezia tra Sei e Settecento. Donzelli Editore, 2000. ISBN 9788879895798 .
  • Jews from Livorno, Italians from Lisbon, and Hindus from Goa. In: Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales. Volume 58, No. 3. Editions de l'EHESS, 2003. ISBN 9782200929725 , pp. 581-603.
  • Images and Self-Images of Sephardic Merchants in Early Modern Europe and the Mediterranean. In: The Self-Perception of Early Modern Capitalists. Palgrave Macmillan, New York January 2008. ISBN 978-0-230-61781-0 , pp. 49-74.
  • The Familiarity of Strangers : The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period. Yale University, 2009, ISBN 978-0-300-13683-8 .
  • Is There a Future for Italian Microhistory in the Age of Global History? In: California Italian Studies. Volume 2, No. 1. eScholarship Publishing University of California, 2011. e-ISSN 2155-7926.
  • with Christopher H. Johnson, David Sabean , Simon Teuscher (Eds.): Transregional and transnational families in Europe and beyond: Experiences since the middle ages. Berghahn Books, August 2011. ISBN 978-0-85745-183-5 .
  • Credit, Honor, and the Early Modern French Legend of the Jewish Invention of Bills of Exchange. In: Journal of Modern History. Volume 55, No. 5 (June 2012). University of Chicago Press, 2012. DOI 10.1086 / 664732, pp. 289-334.
  • The Birth of a Legend: Jews and Finance in the Bordeaux Imaginary during the Seventeenth Century. In: Archives Juives. Volume 47, No. 2. Les Belles lettres, 2014. ISBN 9782251694399 , pp. 47-76.
  • with Leor Halevi, Catia Antunes (Ed.): Religion and Trade: Cross-Cultural Exchanges In World History, 1000-1900. Oxford University Press, September 2014. ISBN 978-0199379194 .
  • A New Battle for History in the Twenty-First Century? In: Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales. Volume 70, No. 2. Editions de l'EHESS, 2015. ISBN 9782200929725 , pp. 333–343.
  • The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society. Princeton University Press, February 2019. ISBN 978-0691178592 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b American Academy - Francesca Trivellato. Accessed July 19, 2019 .
  2. ^ A b Yale News: Francesca Trivellato named the Barton M. Biggs Professor of History. Accessed July 19, 2019 .
  3. ^ AHR - Board of Editors. Accessed July 19, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b IAS - Francesca Trivellato. Accessed July 19, 2019 .
  5. ^ Francesca Trivellato: Microstoria / Microhistoire / Microhistory . In: Berghahn Books (Ed.): French Politics, Culture & Society . tape 33 , no. 1 (spring 2015), p. 122-134 .
  6. ^ Francesca Trivellato: Is There a Future for Italian Microhistory in the Age of Global History? In: California Italian Studies . tape 2 , no. 1 , 2011 ( escholarship.org [accessed September 1, 2019]).
  7. ↑ AJS Award Recipients Accessed on September 14, 2019
  8. ^ A b Familiarity of Strangers - Yale University Press. Retrieved on August 24, 2019 .
  9. ^ Review - Yosef Kaplan. Retrieved on August 24, 2019 .
  10. ^ The Promise and Peril of Credit - Princeton University Press. Retrieved on August 24, 2019 .
  11. ↑ The Making of an Anti-Semitic Myth - Jacob Soll. Retrieved on August 24, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Trivellato, Francesca
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian historian, university professor and book author
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Padua