Finanzieri Lombardi Come "Giudei Battezzati": Pratiche e linguaggi di una cittadinanza incerta (secoli XIII-XVII)
Between the Middle Ages and the early Modern Age, the lexica of civic membership were closely linked to economic practices, understood as relations of credibility and trust. In that phase, types and forms of citizenship of financial operators emerged, characterised by a sometimes strong and sometime...
| Subtitles: | Lombardian Financiers As "Baptized Jews"$dPractices and languages of an uncertain citizenship (13th-17th centuries) |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Italian |
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Ed. Morcelliana
2023
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Rivista di storia del cristianesimo
Year: 2023, Volume: 20, Issue: 1, Pages: 155-167 |
| Further subjects: | B
cittadinanza
B Ebrei B Investors B Jews B Lombards B Citizenship B Middle Ages B Medioevo B Lombardi |
| Summary: | Between the Middle Ages and the early Modern Age, the lexica of civic membership were closely linked to economic practices, understood as relations of credibility and trust. In that phase, types and forms of citizenship of financial operators emerged, characterised by a sometimes strong and sometimes uncertain inclusion depending on the evaluation of economic practices, occasionally considered usurious. The sources testify to the ambiguous distinction between inclusion and exclusion that characterised Lombards - the financiers originating in northern Italy, active between the 13th and 17th centuries in European credit markets - and the Jews, two groups assimilated by the fact that they operated in credit. If Jews negotiated inclusion on the basis of structural otherness, Lombards tended - unsuccessfully, at least in the long run - not to lose the potential entrenchment guaranteed by a religious affiliation similar to that of the communities within which they operated: an entrenchment that was, however, compromised by their credit practices. Both groups suffered the vulnus of an uncertain and often denied citizenship due to the stereotypes by which their financial activities were stigmatised. However, the outcomes were different: the controversial Jewish citizenship culminated in a conditional and marginalised inclusion in the ghettos, while the fate of the Lombard financiers brought to their slow decline. |
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