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[Article] Les « pauvres de Dieu » et les marchands-banquiers, la redistribution chez les Salviati de Londres (vers 1445-vers 1465) (Matthieu Scherman)

Traverse_1_2015Le n°1/2015 de la revue Traverses. Zeitschrifr für Geschichte. Revue d”histoire consacre son dossier thématique, dirigé par Andreas Behr, Gisela Hürlimann, Sonia Matter et Malik Mazbouri, au thème « Umverteilen – Redistribution ».
A partir de la documentation comptable des Salviati de Londres, Matthieu Scherman y publie un article dans lequel il examine les pratiques redistributives des marchands-banquiers florentins du XVe siècle. Continuer la lecture

[Intervention] Le marché lyonnais à la fin du Moyen Age, définition et dynamiques à travers de l’exemple de la compagnie Salviati de Lyon (Agnès Pallini-Martin)

workshopAu workshop « Markets and Agents in Premodern Europe» (13-14 novembre 2015, Université de Valladolid), intervention d’Agnès Pallini-Martin :

Le marché lyonnais à la fin du Moyen Age, définition et dynamiques à travers de l’exemple de la compagnie Salviati de Lyon

 

programme du workshop (pdf) : à retrouver sur le site d’Arcacomunis (http://www.arcacomunis.uma.es)

[Intervention] Colour fashions in Constantinople in the light of some unpublished archives of a Florentine company (Ingrid Houssaye Michienzi et Dominique Cardon)

DHA 33Au congrès Dyes in History and Archaeology 33 (29 octobre-1er novembre 2014, Glasgow), Ingrid Houssaye Michienzi et Dominique Cardon sont intervenues sur le thème :

« Colour fashions in Constantinople in the light of some unpublished
archives of a Florentine company (end of the XVth century) »

The Archivio Salviati, upon which this communication is mostly based, is preserved in Pisa (Italy), at the Scuola Normale Superiore. This archive is the largest after that of Datini, a merchant in Prato. It contains thousands of account books and documents written from the 14th century until the 17th century, concerning textile production and international trade with many places in Europe and beyond. This paper presents the first results of work in progress on the documents in this Archive that concern the history of dyeing. This is only one aspect of a vast interdisciplinary research programme on the study and publication of the Archive: the ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche, France)’s programme “ENPrESA”.

The proposed paper is primarily based on the study of three account books written from Ottoman Constantinople at the end of the 15th century. On the Giornale e Ricordi, Giovanni di Marco Salviati wrote, in Tuscan language, the daily activities from 1491 to 1493. The information inside the journal is written again in two other registers, named Debitori e Creditori, which contain the accounts of people or merchandizes that corresponded to a debt or a credit. They are the only account books of Florentine people written within the Ottoman Constantinople that are known to be preserved in the archives of any country, so far.

Our study focuses on lists of bales of different types of woollen cloth sent to Constantinople, in which not only the length, but the colour of each piece of cloth is mentioned. This mass of information gives precious insights into the colour tastes of the Ottoman buyers at the time.

But the historical interest of these documents only appears in full light when compared with:

– similar lists included in the earlier account book of a Venetian merchant in Constantinople, Giacomo Badoer, just before the city fell to the Turk;

– a Venetian dyer’s book contemporanean with the documents from the Salviati Archive, giving precise recipes for most of the colours mentioned in the lists;

– later documents from the French Archives, concerning the dyes and colours of the woollen-cloth specially produced for consumers in the Ottoman Empire, “the Levant”, showing the long life of many colour names, giving recipes to obtain such colours, and illustrating them with dyed cloth-samples.

[Intervention] Des transactions au fort accent. La position des courtiers italiens sur la place de Londres au XVe siècle (Matthieu Scherman)

Colloque Pouvoir des courtiers-afficheAu colloque Le pouvoir des courtiers (25-26 septembre 2014, Ecole normale supérieure Ulm et Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre -La Défense) dont il était co-organisateur avec Anne Wegener-Sleewijk (Université PAris 1-IHMC) et Vincent Demont (Université Paris Ouest-CHISCO), Matthieu Scherman est intervenu sur le thème :

« Des transactions au fort accent. La position des courtiers italiens sur la place de Londres au XVe siècle »

[Intervention] Commission trading and the transformation of Florentine business organization (Nadia Matringe)

Commission trading and the transformation of Florentine business organization during the sixteenth century
Nadia Matringe

texte publié le 30 juillet 2014

Communication présentée au 18th annual Congress of the European Business History Association (EBHA 2014, Utrecht), Session « The Organization of Business in Early Modern Europe ».

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[Intervention] Jewish Merchant Networks in Early Modern Mediterranean as Perceived through Florentine Business Archives (Ingrid Houssaye Michienzi)

EAJSAu Xth Congress of the european Association of Jewish Studies (Paris, 20-24 juillet 2014), Ingrid Houssaye a présenté une intervention sur le thème :

« Jewish Merchant Networks in Early Modern Mediterranean
as Perceived through Florentine Business Archives »

Abstract
Correspondences and account books left by Florentine merchants established in different places of the Mediterranean area in Early Modern time, such as Majorca or Constantinople, give a lot of information about their Jewish economic partners or clients. Sometimes containing some writings in Hebrew letters, the documents that I will present allow to identify Jewish people and networks, and to understand their spatial configuration.

[Intervention] From Pisa to Lisbon. The role of the Salviati-Da Colle Company in the fifteenth century Mediterranean trade (Joana Sequeira)

Au IV° Congresso de la Red de Historia Marítima del Mediterráneo (MMHN, Barcelone, 7-9 mai 2014), intervention de Joana Sequeria sur le thème :

« From Pisa to Lisbon. The role of the Salviati-Da Colle Company
in the fifteenth century Mediterranean trade »

[Intervention] Apprenticeship of Florentine merchants-bankers (Matthieu Scherman)

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Apprenticeship of Florentine merchants-bankers: the example of the 15th century London Salviati bank.
Matthieu Scherman (EFR)

texte publié le 30 avril 2014

Communication présentée à l’European Social Science History Conference 2014 (ESSHC 2014, Vienne), Session « Learning and Training Patterns of Skilled Labour Force in Preindustrial Europe (14th-18th Centuries) ».

This paper aims to examine how Fiorentine merchants were trained to succeed in the bank business. The Salviati, from the Florence’s nobility, operated a bank in London from 1444 to 1445. After Florence and Pisa, London is the third bank to be opened, before Bruges. Thus, the network designed by the family linked Mediterranean and Northern Europe. Thanks to the documentation available, such as the accounting books and the tax declarations, it is we have gained a greater understanding of how people developed their skills as merchants-bankers.

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[Intervention] Tenir ses livres de comptes pour des marchands florentins à Lyon à la fin du Moyen Age (Agnès Pallini-Martin)

Aux XIXe Journées d’Histoire du Management et des Organisations (26,-27-28 mars 2014, Université Paris-Est – Marne-la-Vallée), intervention d’Agnès Pallini-Martin sur le thème :

 

«Tenir ses livres de comptes pour des marchands florentins à Lyon à la fin du Moyen Age : adapter les outils techniques à sa pratiques marchande  »

Résumé
La normalisation des livres de comptabilité pour les marchands florentins à la fin du XVe siècle est essentielle dans la bonne marche de leurs affaires. Basée sur la confiance et la réciprocité, elle permet la maîtrise de l’espace commercial ainsi que du temps de la transaction, tout comme celui de l’immobilisation des capitaux. L’analyse de ces livres, à travers l’exemple de la compagnie Salviati à Lyon, révèle comment les marchands adaptent ces outils à la spécificité de leurs pratiques marchandes, tout en respectant les règles de la pratique comptable.