Francesca Trivellato is professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. She is the author of The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period.
"Winner of the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History, American
Philosophical Society"
"Winner of the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Medieval and Early
Modern Jewish History and Culture, Association for Jewish
Studies"
"[Trivellato] deftly demonstrates how dangerous such stories [about
credit] can be—and how widespread their effects."---Rebecca L.
Spang, Times Literary Supplement
"Extraordinary. . . . Trivellato’s excellent book shows the power
and the necessity of credible history to fight ever corrosive and
dangerous legends alive and thriving in our own
technologically-advanced yet troubled times."---Jacob Soll, New
Republic
"Part history, part mystery . . . . [A] tour de force history of
economic thought that gives deep insight into the evolution of
thought towards (and mainly against) Jews . . . . The Promise and
Peril of Credit was a true pleasure to read. For anyone interested
in the history of early modern economic thought or Jewish economic
history, this book is a must read."---Jared Rubin, The Journal of
Economic History
"Trivellato’s close, convincing analysis makes for stimulating
reading."---Thomas Max Safley, Economic History Review
"Trivellato’s The Promise and Peril of Credit bristles with
intelligence, insight, and ingenuity: it is one of the most
sophisticated, thoughtful, and thought-provoking books I have read
(and enjoyed reading) in recent years."---Lars Fischer, Jewish
Historical Studies
"[An] important and potentially field-changing [book]. . . .
Trivellato’s work has much contemporary resonance."---Flora Cassen,
Jewish Quarterly Review
"The Promise and Peril of Credit masterfully traces changing
European attitudes to finance and commerce in the early modern and
modern periods."---Francesca Bregoli, Journal of Modern History
"A meticulous survey of the early modern commercial and economic
literature. . . . The Promise and Peril of Credit is a book as
erudite as it is sweeping. With ease and elegance, the author
crosses not only language barriers, but also the trans-temporal
divide between early modern and modern times. . . . Trivellato adds
important nuance to our understanding of anti-Judaism."---Daniel
Jütte, Eighteenth-Century Studies
"“The book’s long subtitle promises to tell us what this forgotten
legend reveals ‘about the making of European commercial society.’
It is a testament to the author’s erudition, patient research, and
intellectual ecumenism that her book delivers so richly on this
promise.”"---Rowan Dorin, Law and History Review
"Moving deftly through economic history, law, and the annals of
anti-Semitism."---Elka Weber, Segula Jewish History Magazine
"[An] important book deserving the widest possible readership
across disciplines. . . . [Its] subject is nothing less than the
making of the modern world."---Robert Fredona, Business History
Review
"The book is highly relevant today and truly inspiring."---Tom
Tölle, H-Soz-u-Kult
"The valuable study by Francesca Trivellato, who transcends
national and linguistic boundaries . . . shows how a study of
“international” anti-Semitism can be done by focusing on one
particular example such as a legend on Jewish economic activity and
its subsequent spread throughout Europe."---Oliver Schulz, QUEST-
Issues in Contemporary Jewish History
"Astonishing book."---Germano Maifreda, QUEST- Issues in
Contemporary Jewish History
"Trivellato’s study makes an important contribution to both Jewish
Studies and the wider history of economic thought, the bridging of
which is an express purpose of the work. . . . The book is an
important contribution to the history of Jews in economic thought
and to the study of the relationship between law and
language."---Joshua Teplitsky, Antisemitism Studies
"This book is a gem. Francesca Trivellato has produced a
multifaceted exploration of the complex relation between evolving
Christian ideas about Jews and the development of modern commercial
society."---Arthur Wilson, EH.net
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