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Dear digital medievalists,
We are delighted to invite you to the Symposium on the occasion of launching the Online Census 1211-1499 on Friday 30 Oct 2020, 5 pm (CET). The event will be held on Zoom: 850 6121 5062 (Passcode: Census30).
Please find below the programme with a brief description of the census and a poster in attachment.
Everybody welcome!
Regards, Franz
*** Private account books in Renaissance Florence. Symposium on the occasion of launching the Online Census 1211-1499
Friday, 30 Oct 2020, 5 pm (CET) Zoom: 850 6121 5062 (Passcode: Census30)
WELCOME Introduction to the Online Census Database by Francesco Bettarini and Daniele Fusi (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
LIGHTNING TALKS Leonardo Meoni Director, Archivio di Stato di Prato: “La digitalizzazione dell'archivio Datini”
Georg Vogeler, University of Graz: “On the state of the art of editing account books”
ROUND TABLE Moderation by Chiara Saccon (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) Introduction to the discussion by Sergio Tognetti (University of Cagliari)
Participants: Giovanni Favero (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) John Padgett (University of Chicago) Dorit Raines (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) Alan Sangster (University of Aberdeen)
Organizers: Francesco Bettarini, Franz Fischer, Chiara Saccon, Massimo Warglien
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The realization of a complete census of the Florentine accounting sources is the last step of a long research, started almost fifty years ago. The main credits go to Richard Goldthwaite and Marco Spallanzani who have been collecting throughout their research careers a huge amount of data from public and private archives. Thanks to a grant funded by Ca’Foscari University of Venice, the original dataset has been revised and extended by Francesco Bettarini and recently converted into an actual database by Daniele Fusi. It now records more than 3000 items, with detailed information concerning the acts, datation, families involved, type of economic activities, archival location and more. The census will be published online to make it accessible to a large community of scholars in the social and economic history of Renaissance Florence and beyond. It will serve as a hub of materials and data on accounting documents by linking them to an ever growing landscape of online resources, e.g. collections of digital facsimiles and editions, as they will become available over time.
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Franz Fischer Direttore, Venice Centre for Digital & Public Humanities (VeDPH) Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici Università Ca' Foscari Palazzo Malcanton Marcorà Dorsoduro 3484/D - 30123 Venezia
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