Symposium Friday, 31 May 2002

Wealth and Power in the Renaissance

Room H545, Humanities Building, University of Warwick

Programme

10.30 Coffee (Graduate Space, 4th Floor)

11.00 Professor Robert Knecht (Emeritus, University of Birmingham) 'Crown and Nobility in France and England'

Dr Francesco Guidi Bruscoli (Queen Mary's College, University of London) 'A Milanese Bank in Bruges and London in the 1430s: Filippo Borromei e compagni'

Dr Tom Scott (University of Liverpool) 'Wealth and Power in the Patriciate of Cologne, 1300-1500'

1.00 Lunch

2.00 Dr Tony Antonovics (University of Bristol) 'Late Arrivals: The Genoese as Papal Bankers in the Renaissance'

Professor Marcello Simonetta (Wesleyan University) 'The Dukeless Duchy: Policy during the Milanese Regency, 1476-1480'

Dr Jonathan Davies (University of Warwick) 'A Lost Elite: The Leaders of the Banking Guild of Florence, 1378-1530'

4.30 Conclusion

All welcome

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