Francesca Trivellato

"Antisemitism is an old problem with roots that reach back to medieval Europe. While earlier forms focused more on religious bigotry, antisemitism in the modern period became increasingly racialized and politicized. So what is the connection between...

Francesca Trivellato, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the School of Historical Studies, has been awarded the 2020 Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History for The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us...

“More than 500 years before the industrial revolution, finance capitalism, represented by paper instruments, enabled new kinds of commerce over long distances and generated new wealth. But this wealth was increasingly disconnected from the...

The inaugural issue of Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics is now available in open access.

Capitalism is a new academic journal offering a trans-disciplinary forum for the examination of the history of economic phenomena broadly...

Francesca Trivellato, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the School of Historical Studies, will participate in a roundtable discussion on Saturday, November 16, with the editors of the new academic journal Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics.

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H-France Salon has published a series of tributes in honor of Natalie Zemon Davis, acclaimed early modern historian and former Member (1978) in the School of Social Science, on the occasion of her ninetieth birthday. The tributes were originally...

“I do not believe I have ever read a nonfiction book, let alone a history book, that reads part history, part mystery. Yet, Francesca Trivellato pulls it off magnificently in her highly learned book, The Promise and Peril of Credit.”

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"What these [medieval] moral theologians were grappling with is something with which we are still grappling in many ways, that is, how to support the expansion of market forces, including financial instruments that have the potential of benefiting...

"Against the general tendency to diminish the relevance of the humanities, and history in particular, I wanted to reaffirm the value of academic research, even the seemingly most abstruse research, to understand some long-term dynamics of modern...