Marie Buňatová
Mgr., Dr. phil.
Domestic project
Prague as one of the centres of the Italian trade and financial network (1611–1627)
Provider: The Czech Science Foundation
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Project duration:
2025–2027
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Project ID: GA25-15433S
The project involves fundamental research that focuses on the development of trade and financial relations between Prague and Italy (1611–1627). This was, in terms of politics and the confessional state, a complex period in the history of the Czech state (from the beginning of the reign of Maximilian Habsburg, through the Uprising of the Estates and the 1st phase of the Thirty Years' War, to the publication of the Renewed Provincial Ordinance in 1627), during which a number of changes took place in Prague's foreign trade and finance. The research considers Italian business undertakings in Prague and reconstructs their international trading and financial networks (with emphasis on Nuremberg, Vienna, and the Italian centres of Milan, Genoa, and Verona). At the same time, the co-applicant will try to verify an initial hypothesis about the importance of financial flows between Italy and the Habsburg Netherlands to the credit market in Prague. The research is based on primary sources of Czech and foreign provenance which have not yet been used for such comprehensively conceived research.
