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VII MARTÍN DE AZPILICUETA DOCTORAL SEMINAR

ARCA COMUNIS NETWORK

POWER, FISCAL SYSTEMS AND FINANCES IN THE MIDDLE AND MODERN AGES: TOWARDS NEW PERSPECTIVES

DATES: 22nd and 23rd May 2025.

VENUE: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia (Italy).

DIRECTORS: Ángel Galán Sánchez (University of Málaga), Benoît Maréchaux (Complutense University of Madrid) and Esther Tello Hernández (Milá y Fontanals Institution for Humanities Research, CSIC, Barcelona).

ORGANISERS: Inocencia Perea (University of Málaga) and Andrés Requena (University of Málaga).

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: Ángel Galán Sánchez (Universidad de Málaga), Elena García Guerra (CCHS, CSIC, Madrid), Giovanni Gregorini (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano), Benoît Maréchaux (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Giuseppe de Luca (Università degli Studi di Milano Statale), Riccardo Semeraro (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia), Esther Tello Hernández (Institución Milá y Fontanals de Investigación en Humanidades, CSIC. Barcelona) y José Manuel Triano Milán (Universidad de Málaga).

GENERAL OUTLINES:

The Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Brescia and the Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca in Storia Economica (ARISE) are hosting the VII Martín de Azpilicueta Seminar, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Innovation and Science (RED2022-134575-T network project). This event, now a consolidated and periodic activity, is promoted by Arca Comunis, a Network of Research Projects on the history of Medieval and Moderns Fiscal Systems coordinated by the University of Málaga.

This seminar is aimed at doctoral students and young doctors interested in the history of taxation and finance in a broad sense. Its purpose is to foster the exchange of ideas on the latest historiographical trends, stimulate scientific debate, and create dialogues around ongoing work. Participants will briefly present their research topics, followed by discussions moderated by researchers from the Arca Comunis Network and experts in the thematic areas addressed.

RESEARCH FOCUS:

The seminar seeks to examine the interactions between political and fiscal systems across Europe during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period—formative eras in the development of modern state structures. Through a comprehensive approach, it will explore how fiscal dynamics not only shaped the consolidation of political power but also influenced the political strategies. Somewhat gauge their impact on decisions that designed the scope and effectiveness of fiscal institutions in these historical contexts.

The central objectives are:

  1. To examine the impact of fiscal systems on market integration and economic growth, considering their connection with institutional developments and the consolidation of centralized state structures.
  2. To investigate the interrelations between public finance and economic growth and decline. Including the exploration of policies’ impact on behavioural economics and the birth of institutional mechanisms for economic and financial regulation.
  3. To analyse the constraints public finance imposed on the development of productive activities, property structures, and financial systems.
  4. To explore the relationship between inequality, economic structures, gender differences, and political change. Inequality provides a valuable avenue for research through the analysis of fiscal sources. In addition, the seminar will consider how political mechanisms for tax extraction and distribution, economic systems of wealth distribution and transmission, and social structures across different scales interact within a unified framework of study.

We encourage candidates, within these objectives, to explore topics such as:

  • The legitimacy of taxation.
  • The relationship between tax collection and political stability.
  • Economic inequality and the role of gender differences.
  • The impact of economic crises on policies and public administration.
  • Relationship between tax justification, taxpayer acceptance and actual powers.

The seminar will also include:

  • Research on the role of private finance, examining how businesspeople participated in supplying credit to rulers and mobilizing fiscal and monetary resources.
  • The evolution of fiscal and political theories, exploring how ideas of fiscal justice and governmental responsibility have changed over time in response to social, economic, and cultural transformations in medieval and early modern history.

Finally, specific attention will be paid to regional and temporal differences. Comparative perspective on fiscal systems as instruments of control and development in various contexts will warmly welcome. We also encourage the use of documentary sources and contemporary methodologies, such as Digital Humanities and statistical systems, to reinterpret historical data from new angles. This multifaceted approach will not only deepen our understanding of historical dynamics but also offer fresh perspectives on contemporary challenges related to taxation and political power.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION:

Proposals should be sent to etello@imf.csic.es by 10th January 2025. The proposal must be sent in a single PDF document containing a brief Curriculum Vitae (maximum two pages) and a summary of the research (3,000 to 5,000 characters). Proposals written in Italian, Spanish, French, English, or Portuguese will be accepted. Candidates will receive a response by 30th January 2025.

  • The seminar will be exclusively in-person.
    • Presentations will last between 20 and 30 minutes. The languages considered are: Italian, Spanish, French, English, or Portuguese. The accompanying PowerPoint should be in a different language, preferably English.
    • The Arca Comunis network will finance between one and two nights of accommodation for the selected participants.
    • The Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Brescia will offer one lunch to the participants.
    • The participants will bear travel expenses.

Appel à Communication – Journée d’étude à Poitiers – 25 mars 2025

La place des manuels comptables : La place des manuels comptables : perspectiveshistoriques et pédagogiques

Dans la poursuite des activités des Groupes thématiques « enseignement » et « histoire » de l’AFC, une journée d’étude sur la thématique de l’histoire et de la diffusion des manuels comptables sera organisée le 25 mars 2025 à la médiathèque de Poitiers. Cette journée sera l’occasion de présenter le premier traité de tenue des livres de comptes en langue française, publié en 1543 :

Jehan Ympyn Cristophle, Nouvelle Instruction et Remonstration de la très excellente Science du Livre de compte, pour compter et mener comptez, à la manière d’Itallie, mout prouffitable et nécessaire, à tous Marchans, Recepveurs, Fermiers, Maultaultiers, Gabellionnaires, et autres, informant comment chascun doibt tenir et faire comptes par Livres doubles et contredoubles, à la manière et usaige que dessusdict est… Translatté à grande diligence d’Itallian en Flameng, et dudict Flameng en Françoys, / par la Vefve de feu Jehan Ympyn Cristophle, en son vivant Marchant en la très renommée et bonne Ville d’Anvers. Et nouvellement provulguez, au prouffit du commung, en l’an de nostre Seigneur. Anvers, Gilles Copyns.

Repéré en mars 2019 sur le catalogue de la Médiathèque François-Mitterrand de Poitiers, au hasard d’un butinage bibliographique, cet exemplaire rarissime, provenant de la bibliothèque du couvent des Cordeliers de Poitiers, fermé à la Révolution, n’avait jusque-là guère attiré l’attention. Cette journée sera l’occasion de présenter physiquement et en détail le contenu de cet ouvrage et l’histoire de sa conservation, dans la perspective d’un projet d’édition critique.

La journée sera rythmée par l’intervention d’un conférencier invité, Jacques BOTTIN,1 et une table ronde rassemblant quelques auteurs de manuels, sur le rôle joué par ceux-ci dans la diffusion des savoirs comptables hier et aujourd’hui. D’autre part, un temps sera dédié à la présentation de communications autour de la fonction de médiation assurée par les manuels comptables, entre diffusion des bonnes pratiques et savoir enseignable, avec une perspective historique et/ou pédagogique.

A l’instar du célèbre manuel de Luca Pacioli rédigé en 14942, le manuel comptable constitue un objet privilégié pour les chercheurs s’intéressant aux processus historiques de diffusion des idées et des pratiques comptables (Sangster, Stoner & McCarthy, 2008) mais également à l’évolution des pratiques pédagogiques d’enseignement de la comptabilité (Sangster & Scataglinibelghitar, 2010). Mobilisant très souvent des exemples concrets pour illustrer le propos théorique, ces ouvrages constituent aussi une source particulièrement riche pour documenter un ensemble plus large de pratiques commerciales s’inscrivant dans des contextes socio-économiques spécifiques (Bottin, 2001, McWatters & Lemarchand, 2006, 2010). Dans cette perspective, les communications pourraient par exemple étudier la fonction des manuels comptables au sein de processus de légitimation ou d’institutionnalisation du savoir comptable et gestionnaire, la place des manuels dans l’évolution des pratiques pédagogiques, ou encore interroger certains aspects du contexte socio-économique permettant d’expliquer le succès commercial (ou au contraire l’échec) de certains ouvrages (Jeannin, 2002).

Au-delà de ces aspects historiques, les manuels comptables, souvent rédigés par des enseignants-chercheurs, constituent encore aujourd’hui un support privilégié dans les activités d’enseignement de la comptabilité, à l’université et dans les autres filières de l’enseignement supérieur. Les développements d’internet et des nouvelles technologies de l’information conduisent toutefois les enseignants à repenser leurs pratiques pédagogiques, remettant potentiellement en question le statut et les modalités d’usage des manuels traditionnels. Dans cette perspective, les communications pourraient par exemple s’interroger sur la pertinence pédagogique actuelle des manuels comptables et les perspectives en termes de pratiques d’enseignement.

Enfin, un troisième axe qui pourrait être abordé concerne la place de l’histoire dans l’enseignement en comptabilité (Lemarchand & Nikitin, 2014), celle-ci étant parfois considérée comme un préalable à l’étude des techniques comptables (Degos, 1998). Est-il (encore) possible de nourrir nos pratiques pédagogiques actuelles à l’aide d’expériences du passé ? Quelle est la valeur des études de cas historiques pour l’apprentissage de la comptabilité ? Est-il nécessaire d’aborder les aspects historiques de la discipline comptable et des pratiques associées pour permettre aux étudiants de développer une perspective critique dans l’usage et l’interprétation des données comptables ?

De façon plus générale, les propositions de communication se situant au croisement entre aspects historiques et pédagogiques des manuels comptables et gestionnaires seront les bienvenues. Les adresser à gautier.gond@univ-tours.fr ou antoine.fabre@dauphine.psl.eu.

Date limite de soumission : 06 janvier 2024

Datini – ESTER Advanced Seminar 2025 “Finance in History”

The organisers

ESTER, established in 1991, is an international postgraduate network incorporating more than 60 European Universities. ESTER organizes research training in the form of both the annual Research Design Course for starting PhD-students and a series of Ad-vanced Seminars on special themes within economic and social history.

“F. Datini” International Institute of Economic History was founded in 1968 by Federigo Melis and Fernand Braudel. The aim of the Institute is the study of pre-industrial economic history (thirteenth-eighteenth centuries) and the creation on the topic of a space for historical culture, making comparison between different methodologies and schools of research easier and supporting young scholars during their formative years.
Theme

The topic of the Datini-Ester seminar is closely related to the theme of the congress yearly organized by the “F. Datini” International Institute of Economic History and devoted in 2025 to Risk Management, Insolvency, and Bankruptcy in the Pre-Modern World (13th-18th Centuries). The 2024 Datini-Ester seminar will deal with Finance. We particularly welcome papers on the development of financial institutions, risk and control of risk, financial practises and financial behaviour in different historical contexts. Papers may cover topics such as sovereign and public debt, money lending, banking, and insurance, relations between private creditors and debtors, exchange(s) and capital market(s), etc. We welcome scholars working on both the macro and micro level. Papers can cover any relevant aspect and any period, from Antiquity until today, but must have an economic-historical or historical character.

Participants in the Datini-ESTER advanced seminar can receive 4 ECTS credits.
[ download the Call for Papers]

Description and organization of the Advanced Datini-ESTER Seminar

The seminar is jointly organized by the members of the board of the Datini-Ester Seminar: Guido Alfani (Fondazione “F. Datini”), Ben Gales (ESTER), Jaco Zuijderduijn (ESTER), Francesco Ammannati (Fondazione “F. Datini”). The members of the board, together with other colleagues, specialist in the field, will participate in the seminar as instructors.

The Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar consists of two complementary parts:

a) the participation in the international Datini congress (LVI Settimana di Studi), devoted in 2025 to “Gestione del rischio, insolvenza e bancarotta nel mondo premoderno (secc. XIII-XVIII) • Risk Management, Insolvency, and Bankruptcy in the Pre-Modern World (13th-18th Centuries)”. The congress will be held in Prato, from May 11 (opening 18.00 [exact time to be confirmed] with the inaugural speech in the municipal building) until May 15 (afternoon) 2025. For information on the congress:
https://www.istitutodatini.it/temi/htm/temi56.htm;

b) a two-day workshop from May 16 (morning) until May 17 (late afternoon) 2025, in a reserved room of the Datini Palace in Prato [place to be confirmed]. The workshop will bring together a number of senior researchers from different countries. Prior to the workshop, students will be asked to prepare a paper. They will have the opportunity of presenting their research project dealing with one or more core problems of their research field and discussing them with both senior researchers and other fellow students. Each paper will be presented by the author during the seminar and then examined and discussed by one of the participating students and by one of the instructors, after which a general discussion among all participants will take place.

The students will be guests of the Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini” from Sunday May 11 (IN) until Sunday May 18 morning (OUT). On May 17, at the end of the seminar, the students will receive diplomas attesting their participation in the Datini congress and Datini-ESTER.

The diplomas will be delivered only to the students who will take part BOTH in the Datini congress AND the seminar.
Besides providing a feedback opportunity for ongoing project on Finance in History, the seminar will provide the opportunity to attend the international Datini congress, and foster cooperation between economic and social historians coming from different countries.
This Advanced Datini-Ester Seminar is open to 15 PhD-students and Post-Docs (who finished their doctorate less than five years prior to the seminar).Applications and admission

Students should apply online, and present a 800 words abstract of the content of their paper dealing with economic exchanges.
A first selection of students (by ESTER and Datini) will take place on the basis of the abstracts. After this stage, students who are accepted will be asked to draft their research paper.
The final admission to the course depends upon the following points:
• the student must meet the deadline for submission of his/her paper (whose deadline is the 15th of March 2025);
• the paper must be of sufficient academic quality and the level of the English used in the paper must be sufficient.
The language of the papers, such as that of the seminar, will be English.
Dates and location

The Advanced 2025 Seminar will take place in Prato, Italy, from May 11 (Sunday with the inauguration of the congress) to May 17 (Saturday), so the day of arrival will be Sunday May 11 and the departure Sunday morning May 18. Both the students and instructors will meet on Sunday evening (11th of May) at 7 pm o’clock for a dinner together (the place to be defined). The seminar will start on Friday 16 at 8.30 am. Students wishing to participate are requested to send their application no later than the 15th October 2024. To this purpose the students will use the online form. The selection of students will be completed by the end of October 2024. Deadline for submission of papers by accepted students is March 15th 2025. Following that date, the papers will be made available to all participants. Application forms are available on the ESTER website https://posthumusinstitute.org/
Dates: a summary (2024-25):

June 2024 – Call for Applications
15th October 2024 – Deadline for Applications
31st October 2024 – Selection completed, applicants informed
15th March 2025 – Deadline paper submission. The final paper will be due to posthumus@uu.nl
31st March 2025 – Papers online for reading
11th May 2025 (morning or afternoon): arrival in Prato
11th May 2025 (18.00 inaugural speech in the municipal building)
11th-15th May (afternoon) 2025 – International Datini Congress
16th-17th May 2025 (late afternoon) – Advanced Seminar
17th May 2025 (end of the seminar) delivery of diplomas
18th May 2025 (morning) departure
Funding

Costs for accommodation and catering will be covered by the organizers. The organizers will not cover travel costs (possibly covered by students’ home institutions). Travel arrangements to and from Prato have to be organized by the selected participants themselves. The workshop will be funded by the Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini” and by the ESTER Graduate School.
Contact

For inquiries concerning this course, please contact ESTER:
ESTER/N.W. Posthumus Institute
Faculty of Arts
P.O. Box 9103
The Netherlands
E-mail: posthumus@uu.nl
Dr Jaco Zuijderduijn (Lund University).

For inquiries concerning the hospitality in Prato, the students have to contact the secretary of the Datini Institute on the dates of their arrival and departure:
Letizia Finocchiaro – Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini” di Prato
E-mail: letizia@istitutodatini.it

Research Fellowships [Kaufman program]

https://thebhc.org/research-fellowships-kaufman-program

Henry Kaufman Financial History Research Fellowships provide for the cost of travel to archives, libraries, research centers, or other research sites (up to $1,000 for in-country travel or up to $2,000 for international travel); access to research databases (up to $500); and other justifiable research-related costs for scholars whose work engages meaningfully with financial history in any time period or region of the world and who are currently in an accredited PhD program or who earned a doctorate within 5 years of the application deadline. Funds must be used within a twelve-months period from the date of award unless granted an extension by the Selection Committee.

 Congrès international d’histoire de la comptabilité 2024

Un Congrès international d’histoire de la comptabilité se déroulera à Porto les 10-11 octobre 2024, avec pour thème The cultural and social dimensions of accounting: an historical perspective. La date limite de soumission des communications est le 12 avril prochain.

Vous trouverez toutes les informations sur cet événement, dont bien sûr l’appel à communications, à l’adresse : https://icah.occ.pt/en/welcome/

Call for Papers: 48th Economic and Business History Society Conference, Porto, Portugal, May 24-27, 2023

The 48th Economic and Business History Society annual conference will be held in Porto, Portugal, on May 24-27, 2023, in partnership with the Arca Comunis Spanish Network of Fiscal History Projects and invites submissions to the conference committee on the theme of Building Bridges in Economic and Business History. At the most recent World Economic History Congress held in Paris, in July 2022, several strong appeals were made to foster interdisciplinary approaches with different areas and connect different historiographies. The organizing committee invites proposals that consider this theme. While the committee will give some preference to papers and panels that fit this theme, the conference committee will also take into consideration papers and panels that engage topics concerned with economic and business history widely construed, including financial and management history and history of economic thought.

Continuing from the success of the 2022 conference, and the particular success of the previous mentorship workshops, EBHS will again be organizing a Doctoral Workshop, which will be held the day before the conference begins. These will be available for any doctoral student who is undertaking a PhD in the fields of business history and economic history, broadly conceived. This includes management history, financial history, labor history, social history, the history of capitalism, as well as business history and economic history. Further news and a call for paper will be distributed at a later date. All papers proposed and accepted for the workshop will be accepted to the general EBHS program as well.

The conference venue is the Sheraton Porto Hotel & Spa, twice-awarded (2021 and 2022) as the “Travelers’ choice” by the referential website Tripadvisor. Accommodation will be available to delegates at the preferential conference rate of €160 per night. There will be two plenary lectures on the 24th and 26th of May, receptions, and other social events, in addition to the usual conference proceedings. The hotel rates are available for pre- and post-conference dates, if attendees would like to bring families and/or stay a little longer to enjoy Porto and the beautiful Douro River Valley.

The program chair is Dr. Jeremy Land (jeremy.land@helsinki.fi), and president is Dr. Rodrigo Dominguez (rcdominguez@ics.uminho.pt). Proposals should include an abstract of no more than 500 words and contact details, and it can be submitted via the conference website (ebhsoc.org/conference) listed below, or via email to both the program chair and president. The deadline for submissions is December 31, 2022. The Program Chair intends to send notifications of acceptance by the end of January.

Conference website and online submission

Call for Papers – Medieval accountability: normativity, numeracy, and rhetoric from the institutional to the domestic sphere

University of Bucharest, 2-3 June 2023

The last two decades of research into medieval ideas and practices of accountability emphasised the multifaceted nature of this subject, from financial accountancy to norms of conduct in office to broader notions of social responsibility. As individual studies tended to focus on one or a couple of specific aspects, it becomes important at the present historiographical juncture to direct our attention to the points of articulation between the different practices of accountability, circa 1200–1500. This two-day conference invites contributions that examine accountability from multiple angles and test new approaches. We particularly encourage comparisons between the institutional and the private sphere, for instance as regards the mutual influences and shared culture of accountability/responsibility. Equally, we welcome contributions that discuss the relation between, on the one hand, numeracy and accounting, and on the other hand, memoranda and instructions about conduct in office or more broadly in society. As a way of expanding the traditional emphasis on accounting records, papers can also explore other sources that evince relevant aspects of social and institutional conduct and one’s responsibility for it, such as administrative reports and inquests.

The conference papers will be collected in an edited volume published with an international academic press and should reflect original, unpublished research. The organisers will provide three nights hotel accommodation and help defray travel expenses. For inquiries, contact Ionuț Epurescu-Pascovici at ionut.epurescu-pascovici@icub.unibuc.ro

Proposals of circa 300 words outlining the source material, methodology, and anticipated findings should be emailed to ionut.epurescu-pascovici@icub.unibuc.ro by 15 December 2022.

Knowledge Transfer in Serial Sources. Administration, Routines and Society in Europe’s Late Medieval Towns

Call for Papers for the International Conference of the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS/ Subcluster ‘Knowledge’ in cooperation with the Department of History/Late Middle Ages and Economic and Social History to be held at Kiel University from 30.03.2023-01.04.2023.

https://www.hsozkult.de/searching/id/event-129938?title=wissenstransfer-in-seriellen-quellen-verwaltung-alltag-und-gesellschaft-in-den-spaetmittelalterlichen-staedten-europas&recno=1&q=j%C3%A4cker&sort&fq&total=10&fbclid=IwAR2tYOert8hdFeUrbzg3L8oILFTVJiZL1jyr3Yv3_UaLdjZ2Z-9wTI1EoTs

Call for Papers XV Workshop de Estudos Medievais

Every year, GIHM (Grupo Informal de História Medieval) organizes the Medieval Studies Workshop (WEM). This event aims to gather both Portuguese and foreign Master’s and PhD students who are conducting their research in the field of medieval studies. This call for papers is open to all Master’s and PhD students in History, History of Art, Archeology, Philosophy, Philology or Literary Studies who intend to debate, discuss and improve their thesis projects. Students who pretend to present end results or thesis/articles which have already been finished will not be selected. The 15th edition will take place, in-person, at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto, on 13th and 14th of April 2022. Please, send your proposal by accessing the following link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfE3hHTl0Hpdy4sjOaZukwjj4Do1uFXxw5EpAKtYk259uuaDw/viewform?usp=sf_link

The deadline for submission of proposals is 31 December 2022. Notifications of acceptance/rejection will be sent until 20th of February 2023.The selected candidates will be asked to send a written article, following the guidelines sent by GIHM, to gihmedieval@gmail.com until 24th of March 2023.

The WEM’s sessions will consist of 45 minutes, split up in the following manner: each participant will have 15 minutes to present their communication; followed up by a commentary provided by a fellow peer (5 minutes) and another one provided by an expert (10 minutes); the last 15 minutes are reserved for a general debate. Each participant will read the paper of a fellow peer and will be asked to prepare a short scientific comment (5 minutes, max.).The working languages are English, Portuguese and Castilian.The selected candidates will have their paper published in GIHM’s journal Incipit. The last number can be accessed at: https://ler.letras.up.pt/site/default.aspx?qry=id03id1737&sum=sim

Additional clarifications regarding support for food and accommodation or any other matters related to the event can be submitted to: gihmedieval@gmail.com

European Rural History Organization 2023

It is a great privilege to inform you that the sixth biennial conference of the European Rural History Organization (EURHO) will take place in Cluj-Napoca, Romania from 11 to 14 September 2023.

The event is coordinated by the Babeș-Bolyai University and the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography.

We are pleased to continue the tradition of the EURHO conferences, held before in Bern (2013)Girona (2015)Leuven (2017)Paris (2019) and Uppsala (2021/22). Therefore, Rural History 2023 wishes to provide a sparkling environment for debates, a platform to discuss the latest scientific achievements of the field. We welcome all topics related to rural history, encouraging in this way papers which support multidisciplinary and comparative approaches. Our conference is also a great opportunity to bring into discussion contemporary concerns regarding rurality, and to highlight ways we could contribute to the safeguarding of living heritage.

Our website provides helpful information regarding registration fees, and suggestions on accommodation. We recommend all the participants to register at the earliest to take advantage of our early-bird fees!

We invite future attendants to consult our website for further information and suggestions regarding keynotes, panels, and papers.

We wish you a meaningful and memorable experience!

Enikő Rüsz-Fogarasi, professor of History at the Babeș-Bolyai University

Conference Website: http://hiphi.ubbcluj.ro/rural/

Call for Sessions: http://hiphi.ubbcluj.ro/rural/call-for-sessions/ (Deadline: 15 October 2022)