Project description
Unveiling Venice’s credit history
Venetian chronicles from the 13th to 16th centuries are filled with tales of power, politics, and state formation, yet one crucial aspect remains largely overlooked: public credit. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the VenHisCred project aims to change this by investigating how and why Venetian chroniclers began documenting public credit and its role in political life. By combining digital corpus linguistics with close reading, the project analyses a vast collection of texts to uncover how credit shaped not only military expansion, but also social mobility and wealth preservation. The project will create a new digital corpus, shedding light on the complex relationship between public credit and Venetian state formation.
Objective
VenHisCred is the first comprehensive and comparative analysis of the emergence of public credit as a subject for Venetian civic historiography. Examining the nexus between public credit, state formation, and historiography from the 13th to the 16th century, it asks why Venetian chroniclers started to include descriptions of public credit in narratives of the political past and investigates how they represented the relationship between state borrowing and state formation. Undertaken at the Department of Economic and Social History (WISO), University of Vienna (UNIVIE) with a training secondment at Harvard University, the project develops an innovative interdisciplinary approach combining digital corpus linguistics with close contextual reading to analyse the emergence of new discursive topics in large bodies of texts. In Venice, public credit was fundamental in raising emergency money for military expenditure. Whilst forced
and voluntary loans and annuities funded state expansion, these credit instruments also enabled families to preserve wealth, ascend socially, and mobilize capital for welfare. However, we know little about Venetians’ own subjective understanding of the role of credit in political life. VenHisCred uncovers these ideas through Venice's vast corpus of chronicles. The project develops an innovative new methodology that uses digital text analysis and close reading to analyse this large corpus of texts. VenHisCred will make available a new digital corpus, a database of 2200 citizen creditors from newly discovered statistics, and result in a peer reviewed journal article on narrating public credit in medieval and early modern Venice.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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