Oeconomia Alpium III

The workshop will be held in-person (Green Pass necessary)

Description

Nel workshop, che fa seguito a due incontri tenutisi a Hall (A) nel 2015 e a Brig (CH) nel 2017, verranno discussi temi e metodi finalizzati alla pubblicazione di una Storia economica delle Alpi in età medievale e moderna in tre volumi, che uscirà presso una primaria casa editrice internazionale. Sarà anche l’occasione per fare un bilancio dello stato attuale delle ricerche sul tema, che in anni recenti hanno conosciuto sviluppi importanti.

Following two meetings held in Hall (2015) and Brig (2017), the workshop will address the fundamental issues of the economic history of the Alps in the medieval and early modern period, in preparation for the publication of a book on the subject by a leading international publishing house.

Official workshop languages: English, Italian and German; simultaneous translation from Italian to German and vice versa is provided (only in-person).

Program

Thursday 7th October 2021

14.00 - 14.20
Welcome, greetings and introduction

14.20 - 15.00
Key Lecture - Jon Mathieu (Luzern), Economic History of the Alps in Global Perspective. Three Aspects

15.00 - 16.30 
Session I. Material and Immaterial Infrastructures

• Giuseppe Albertoni (Trento), Roads and Networks in the Medieval Eastern Alps. A  Comparison
• Marie-Claude  Schöpfer (Brig), Traffic Systems, Transport Structures and Markets of the Alpine Area
• Michael North (Greifswald), Communication in the Holy Roman Empire and the Neighboring Countries

16.30 - 16.45 Coffee Break

16.45 - 18.15
Session II. Forms of Trade

• Markus Denzel (Leipzig), Commerce, Markets, and Money in the Pre-industrial Alpine Economy. Some Conceptional Remarks
• Cinzia Lorandini (Trento), Patterns of Trade in the Alpine Region from the Medieval to the Early Modern Period. Drivers, Structure and Dynamics
• Anne Montenach (Aix-Marseille), Retailing, Peddling, Smuggling in Pre-industrial Alps

Friday 8th October 2021

9.00 - 10.30
Session III. Population, Mobility and Settlings

• Luigi Lorenzetti (Mendrisio), Elements for a History of Migration and Mobility in the Pre-industrial Alps, between Longue Durée and "Human Destinies" (8th-18th centuries)
• Alessio Fornasin (Udine), The Demographic History of the Alps in the Pre-industrial Age
• Luca Mocarelli (Milano), The Towns in the Alps. A Missed Protagonist

10.30 - 10.45 Coffe Break

10.45 - 12.15
Session IV. Woods, Agriculture and Peasantry

• Katia Occhi (Trento), The Woods of the Alps in Medieval and Early Modern Ages between Environmental Protection and Economic-Productive Function  
• Anne-Lise Head-König (Genève), Pastoral and Agrarian Activities in the European Alpine Region and their Transformation (from the 11th Century to the Beginning of the 19th Century)
• Aleksander Panjek (Koper),  Income Integration: Family and Farm in the Pre-industrial Alps (E)

12.15 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 15.30
Session V. Actors and Institutions

• Mark Häberlein (Bamberg), Entrepreneurs in the Alpine Region from the Middle Ages to the Early Nineteenth Century
• Luigi Provero (Torino), Local Churches and Resources in the Alps, from Reform to Reformation (11th-16th centuries)
• Andrea Bonoldi (Trento), Law, Politics, Customs. Institutions in the Pre-industrial Alps

15.30 - 15.45 Coffee Break

15.45 and over
Visit to Torre Aquila, Castello del Buonconsiglio

Saturday, 9th October 2021

9.30 - 10.30
Session VI. Environment, Climate and Resources

• Christian Rohr (Bern), General Climatic Conditions and Adaptive Strategies for the Alpine Economies
• Philipp Rössner (Manchester), Mining in the Alps

10.30 - 10.45 Coffe Break

10.45 - 12.00
Markus Denzel (Leipzig), Conclusions and discussion

12.00 Lunch

Registration

• The registration is free, but necessary and mandatory
• The event will take place In-Person and online (Zoom platform)
• Deadline: Tuesday October 5, 2021 at 12.00 Noon

Link to the In-Person registration; there is a maximum 46 participants due the the Covid rules (first come, first serve)

To attend online, please fill in the Zoom registration-form (it takes less than a minute); as soon as you finish you will receive immediately an email with your personal Zoom-link to the event. Please do not disclose it to anyone else, thank you.
The link is valid for all sessions of the three-day event.

Participants

Giuseppe Albertoni (Università di Trento), Andrea Bonoldi (Università di Trento), Markus Denzel (Universität Leipzig), Alessio Fornasin (Università di Udine), Mark Häberlein (Universität Bamberg), Anne-Lise Head-König (Université de Genève); Andrea Leonardi (Università di Trento), Cinzia Lorandini (Università di Trento), Luigi Lorenzetti (Università della Svizzera Italiana - Mendrisio), Jon Mathieu (Universität Luzern), Luca Mocarelli (Università Milano-Bicocca), Anne Montenach (Aix-Marseille Université), Michael North (Universität Greifswald), Katia Occhi (Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico | FBK - Trento), Aleksander Panjek (Univerza na Primorskem Koper), Luigi Provero (Università di Torino), Reinhold Reith (Universität Salzburg), Christian Rohr (Universität Bern), Philipp Rössner (University of Manchester), Marie-Claude Schöpfer (Forschungsinstitut zur Geschichte des Alpenraums - Brig)

Organisers

StoAlp, Commission for the Economic History of the Alps; Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università degli Studi di Trento; Association “Storia e regione/Geschichte und Region”, with the support of Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico |FBK

Organising Committee

Andrea Bonoldi, Andrea Leonardi and Cinzia Lorandini (Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università di Trento), Michaela Oberhuber (Storia e regione/Geschichte und Region), Katia Occhi (Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico  |FBK)

Contacts

• andrea.bonoldi [at] unitn.it
• michaela.oberhuber [at] provinz.bz.it