IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1016: Women in Accounting: Families and Formation of Wealth in Renaissance Florence
Wednesday 5 July 2023, 09.00-10.30
| Organiser: | Heinrich Lang, Department of Early Modern History, Otto-Friedrichs-Universität Bamberg |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Heinrich Lang, Department of Early Modern History, Otto-Friedrichs-Universität Bamberg |
| Paper 1016-a | Accounting Networks and Family Ties: Women's Private Account Books in Late Medieval Florence (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Urban, Gender Studies, Law |
| Paper 1016-b | How to Track the Accounting Efforts of a Renaissance Noblewoman: The Case of Lucrezia de' Medici-Salviati (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Urban, Gender Studies, Law |
| Paper 1016-c | Camilla Salviati Serristori and the Inheritance of Giovanni Serristori's Assets and Financial Liabilities in 1531: A Patrician Woman in Accounting in Renaissance Florence (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Urban, Gender Studies, Law |
| Abstract | This session discusses women in accounting in Renaissance Florence. Most of the account books preserved in Tuscan archives are personal accounts and refer to the formation of wealth in familial contexts. Although the accumulation of riches is essentially due to marriage and, hence, to the creation of kinship, women seem to be broadly absent from accounting at the first glance. Hardly any account book was kept by a female member of the Florentine elite of those days. However, there are some account books which belonged to women and, above all, accounting is full of traces to the seemingly invisible female and, particularly, the essential position of women in the formation of wealth. |