Fragments of Scholarly Networks: Marc Bloch and Italian Economic History Under Fascism
A Class with Francesca Trivellato
Places are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
To book a place, please register by noon on Monday 11 May via this form
This class will offer the opportunity to discuss how historians worked and how economic history was written in inter-war Europe, considering the relationship between Marc Bloch and the Italian scholar Gino Luzzatto. Based on recent work by Professor Francesca Trivellato (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton), we will also discuss how scholars can write the history of historiography through personal and intellectual encounters that have left little evidence (i.e. no complete correspondence).
This class is open to all but is particularly aimed at graduate students.
Required readings:
Francesca Trivellato, ‘“He Doesn’t Wear the Black Shirt”: Marc Bloch and Gino Luzzatto’ [English translation of an article forthcoming in French]
Gino Luzzatto, ‘The Study of Medieval Economic History in Italy: Recent Literature and Tendencies’, Journal of Economic and Business History 4, no. 4 (1932): 708-727.
Optional readings:
Marc Bloch, ’Natural Economy or Money Economy: A Pseudo-Dilemma’, in Marc Bloch, Land and Work in Medieval Europe (1967): 230-243.
Gino Luzzatto, ’Small and Great Merchants in the Italian Cities of the Renaissance’, in Frederic C. Lane and Jelle C.-Riemersma, eds, Enterprise and Secular Change: Readings in Economic History (1953), 41-52.
An electronic copy of the required readings will be made available upon registration for the class.
For info, please contact alice.rio@history.ox.ac.uk or giuseppe.marcocci@history.ox.ac.uk.
