Roundtable. Risk, uncertainty and bankruptcy before modernity: Language, experience and historical understanding
- Càtia Antunes
- Dave De Ruysscher
- Thomas Max Safley
- Tanja Skambraks
- © 2026 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0963-2.32
This article examines risk, uncertainty, and bankruptcy before modernity, emphasizing the need for historically precise language and contextual analysis. It distinguishes risk from uncertainty in the absence of probabilistic calculation, questions anachronistic applications of modern economic theory, and advocates combining quantitative approaches with microhistorical analysis. By broadening the social and geographical scope beyond elite European actors, it reconstructs how premodern societies understood and managed economic hazards.
- Keywords:
- risk and uncertainty,
- bankruptcy,
- premodern economies,
- historical semantics,
- resilience,
Leiden University, Netherlands - ORCID: 0000-0003-4343-029X
Tilburg University, Netherlands - ORCID: 0000-0001-7675-5475
University of Pennsylvania, United States
University of Graz, Austria - ORCID: 0009-0006-2185-7013
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Titolo del capitolo
Roundtable. Risk, uncertainty and bankruptcy before modernity: Language, experience and historical understanding
Autori
Càtia Antunes, Dave De Ruysscher, Thomas Max Safley, Tanja Skambraks
Lingua
Inglese
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0963-2.32
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Anno di pubblicazione
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Informazioni bibliografiche
Titolo del libro
Gestione del rischio, insolvenza e bancarotta nel mondo premoderno (secc. XIII-XVIII) / Risk management, insolvency, and bankruptcy in the pre-modern world (13th-18th centuries)
Curatori
Angela Orlandi
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
568
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
Copyright
© 2026 Author(s)
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Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0963-2
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0962-5
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0963-2
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-0964-9
Collana
Datini Studies in Economic History
ISSN della collana
2975-1241
e-ISSN della collana
2975-1195