Paolo Tedesco
Visiting Professor University La Sapienza Rome (September-November 2021)
Lecturer in Medieval History - Globalizing the Mediterranean Economy in the Seventh Century (DFG Eigene Stelle 2020-2023)
Fellow at the German Historical Institute of Rome - Max Weber Stiftung and Gerda Henkel Stiftung (August to October 2020)
Lecturer in Medieval History - University of Tuebingen (January to July 2020)
DFG Exzellenzinitiative - Zukunftskonzept Programm - University of Tuebingen (July 2017 to 2019)
Fellow at the Center of Advanced Studies in Migration and Mobility University of Tuebingen (January-June 2017)
Research Fellow Medieval Institute - University of Notre Dame (Fall 2016)
Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks - Harvard University (June-August 2016)
Visiting Fellow University of Tuebingen (May-June 2016)
Post-Doctorate, Institute for Medieval Study, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna (2015-2016)
Visiting Researcher Princeton University, Department of History (2013-2014)
PhD University of Vienna (2011-2015)
M.A. History University of Rome La Sapienza (2009)
I am currently working on my first monograph which explores the financial and economic transition within Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. My research interests include taxation, modes of economic organization, and forms of exploitation of the productive classes in the Mediterranean world from 300 to 1000 AD.
By January 2016, I am collaborator of the Journal European Economic History, with a specific task on Late Antiquity and Middle Ages.
Furthermore, I am a member of the Framing the Late Antique and Early Medieval Economy Project of Princeton University.
Address: Seminar für Alte Geschichte
Wilhelmstr. 36
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Lecturer in Medieval History - Globalizing the Mediterranean Economy in the Seventh Century (DFG Eigene Stelle 2020-2023)
Fellow at the German Historical Institute of Rome - Max Weber Stiftung and Gerda Henkel Stiftung (August to October 2020)
Lecturer in Medieval History - University of Tuebingen (January to July 2020)
DFG Exzellenzinitiative - Zukunftskonzept Programm - University of Tuebingen (July 2017 to 2019)
Fellow at the Center of Advanced Studies in Migration and Mobility University of Tuebingen (January-June 2017)
Research Fellow Medieval Institute - University of Notre Dame (Fall 2016)
Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks - Harvard University (June-August 2016)
Visiting Fellow University of Tuebingen (May-June 2016)
Post-Doctorate, Institute for Medieval Study, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna (2015-2016)
Visiting Researcher Princeton University, Department of History (2013-2014)
PhD University of Vienna (2011-2015)
M.A. History University of Rome La Sapienza (2009)
I am currently working on my first monograph which explores the financial and economic transition within Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. My research interests include taxation, modes of economic organization, and forms of exploitation of the productive classes in the Mediterranean world from 300 to 1000 AD.
By January 2016, I am collaborator of the Journal European Economic History, with a specific task on Late Antiquity and Middle Ages.
Furthermore, I am a member of the Framing the Late Antique and Early Medieval Economy Project of Princeton University.
Address: Seminar für Alte Geschichte
Wilhelmstr. 36
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
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delivered a Lecture at the RomanIslam Center and had taken part in some of the activities of the Center. On that
occasion, the interviewer sought to contextualize Tedesco’s work within a decade of engagement with agrarian
history, state-landlord-peasant relationships, and the theory of labor organization, across the Roman, Byzantine,
and Islamic Mediterranean.
Articles by Paolo Tedesco
delivered a Lecture at the RomanIslam Center and had taken part in some of the activities of the Center. On that
occasion, the interviewer sought to contextualize Tedesco’s work within a decade of engagement with agrarian
history, state-landlord-peasant relationships, and the theory of labor organization, across the Roman, Byzantine,
and Islamic Mediterranean.
Out of this, this essay also focuses on a deeper level on the transition within the Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages. Comparing modern studies, the paper discusses and rehash the theses that speak of historical evolution in terms of modes of production and social formations with the view to elucidate similarities and differences from a theoretical and empirical point of view. The intellectual challenge is to show how much important is the idea of a specific economic organization in the interpretation of the historical transformations.
With this event, we'll celebrate the completion of my DFG project "Globalizing the Mediterranean economy in the seventh century CE" and the beginning of the new DFG enterprise in collaboration with my colleague Steffen Patzold "Our Daily Bread: Christian economies in the early medieval West".
Storici moderni e fiscalità tardoantica: breve storia critica di una «relazione complicata»
11 September 2020, 05:00 pm.
The lecture will take place online on Google Meet.
For information and registration, please mail to: antonella.ghignoli@uniroma1.it
NOTAE is a research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Advanced Grant grant agreement n. 786572,) and is hosted by Sapienza Università di Roma.
11 September 2020, 05:00 pm.
For registration, please mail to:
antonella.ghignoli@uniroma1.it
This workshop seeks to re-launch the concept of Mode of Production as a heuristic tool assisting us in addressing a central epistemological problem of the historical discipline: how are we to approach past societies in their immensely varied historical specificity, and how are we to address the relations they entertained with each other? The debate on Modes of Production contributed to redefining the methodology of social and economic history since the late nineteenth century, and in spite of its biases and shortcomings, was key to the framing of pioneering global-historical and comparative approaches, from Samir Amin’s unequal development, to Immanuel Wallerstein’s world-system analysis, Eric Wolf’s Europe and the People without History, and John Haldon’s The State and the Tributary Mode of Production.
The welcome flourishing of global narratives de-centring Europe and disputing many tenets of an old Eurocentric narrative of globalisation, makes the old challenge even more daunting. Historians are thus called to draw meaningful connections between profoundly different societies; at the same time, the cultural turn has to some extent limited the tools to carry out this endeavour, driving attention away from socio-economic questions. As a result, research on global connectedness has so far mostly focused on intercultural exchange, resulting in an often rarefied and depoliticized narrative of “encounter.” The case for interconnectedness across pre-modern Afro-Eurasia thus remains gravely weakened by our limited understanding of the socio-political and socio-economic structures of the societies among which exchange took place.
If creatively redeployed, Mode of Production can help us overcome this obstacle. As a heuristic category, it emphasises how societies mobilised social labour and draws attention at one and the same time to the human relations to the natural environment, the social relations of humans to humans, and the institutional structures of state and society that guide these relations. Thus, Modes of Production is a lens allowing us to emphasise how past societies need to be understood both in their own right and in their reciprocal connections, similarities, and dissimilarities. To this end, the workshop will offer a wide selection of case studies outlining key socio-economic-political structures of societies across Afro-Eurasia beyond Western Europe and before the inception of European capitalist and colonial hegemony.
Location: Sapienza-University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, Rome, CU003 (Faculty of “Lettere e Filosofia”), Third Floor, Department of “Storia Religioni Arte Spettacolo“, Room “A di Studi storico religiosi".
6pm, Keplerstrasse 2, Room 1.81 - Open to all