Workshop Agenda

Thursday, October 27

09.00-09.15 Welcome: Elise Dermineur (Stockholm University)

09.15-10.15 Keynote 1: Laurence Fontaine (EHESS, CNRS)


10.15-12.00 Session 1 (Chair: Jaco Zuijderduijn)

  • Martín Wasserman (Universidad de Buenos Aires) - Paper monetization and financial devices. The emergence of the banking system at the twilight of the Ancien Regime in Buenos Aires

  • David Carvajal (University of Valladolid) - Credit Flows in Early Modern Castile: from Peninsular to Local Networks

  • Marcella Lorenzini & Giuseppe De Luca (University of Milan) - Financial Strategies of Northern Italian Nobility in the Early Modern Age (17th-18th cent.)


12.00-13.30 Lunch


13.30-15.00 Session 2 (Chair: Elise Dermineur)

  • Stephan Nicolussi-Köhler (University of Innsbruck) - Rural Credit Markets in Medieval Tyrol - Economic Strategies of Small Households

  • Hannah Robb (University of Manchester) - Managing Household Finances in Early Modern England; Commerce and Credit in Court Depositions

  • Christie Swanepoel (University of Western Cape) - Intertwined vines: Homophily among French Huguenots in Eighteenth-Century Cape Colony


15.00-15.30 Coffee break


15.30-16.30 Session 3 (Chair: Jaco Zuijderduijn)

  • Matteo Pompermaier (Stockholm University) - Credit Networks in Renaissance Florence. The Money-Changers as Lenders, Borrowers and Intermediaries

  • Alberto Feenstra (Leiden University) - Innkeepers and Other Middlemen. Financial Intermediation in Early Modern Dutch Debt


19.00 Dinner (check the info section for further details)


Friday, October 28

09.00-10.30 Session 4 (Chair: Matteo Pompermaier)

  • Aurelius Noble (London School of Economics) - Business Among Friends: Personal Connections and Client-Sharing in Merchant Banking

  • Ruben Peeters & Rogier Van Kooten (University of Antwerp) - Mapping the Market. The Credit Transactions of Antwerp’s Business Community in the 19th Century

  • Louis Bissieres (Université Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne, IDHES) - A differentiated access to credit in a merchant network in the 1780s (Philadelphia and its region).


10.30-11.00 Coffee break


11.00-12.00 Keynote 2: Matthew O. Jackson (Stanford University)


12.00 Lunch