Myriam Greilsammer
Early Modern Europe, Consumer Credit, Business and Economic History, Business and Culture, family business, gender and enterprise, Visual Art, emotions, Popular Culture, Social and Cultural
Women in Business History
Myriam Greilsammer, Professor of Anthropological History (Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe) at the General History Department, Bar Ilan University, Israel.
PhD under the direction of Jacques Le Goff (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris).
Research Subjects:
1.Medieval and Early Modern Historical Anthropology of the Low Countries,“Histoire des Mentalités” in the “Longue Durée” (12th-17th C.).
2. Economic History of the Low Countries, History of Banking,
Usury and Lombard Money-Lenders, History of the Monti di Pietà and the
Monts de Piété ( Italy and the Early Modern Low Countries 1618-).
3. Law History in Europe (Latin Kingdom, the Low Countries, Italy, France and Spain).
4. Condition of Women, Gender, History of Family, Marriage, Childbirth and Midwives in Medieval and Early Modern Period.
5. Private writing: Autobiographies, Ricordanze, and Biographies in the Medieval and
Early Modern Period.
Three Last Books :
Forthcoming (2022-2023)
Myriam Greilsammer, Une autre ‘diaspora’. Témoignages inédits concernant les ultimes activités des prêteurs lombards dans les Pays-Bas au seizième siècle. Editeur scientifique Gian Giacomo Fissore, Collection travaux d’humanisme et renaissance,
Editions Droz, Genève.
Myriam Greilsammer (2012). L'Usurier chrétien, un Juif métaphorique ? Histoire de l'exclusion des prêteurs lombards (XIIIe-XVIIe siècle), Presses Universitaires de Rennes PUR, Rennes.
https://biu.coolcite.com/publisher/Presses Universitaires de Rennes PUR
Forthcoming American Translation:
The Christian Usurer: A Metaphorical Jew? History of the Exclusion of the Lombard Moneylenders (13th to 17th century). Revised and expanded version, Indiana University Press, Bloomington.
Myriam Greilsammer (2009). La roue de la fortune. Le destin d’une famille d'usuriers lombards dans les Pays-Bas à l’aube des Temps Modernes, Paris, Presses de l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (E.H.E.S.S.), Paris.
Recent Presentations at BHC Annual Meetings