For the fifth consecutive year, the Medici Archive Project (MAP) will be offering a two-week intensive seminar on archival research. For the first time, MAP will partner with the Archvio di Stato di Firenze, the Amici dell’Archivio di Stato di Firenze and the Biblioteca Domenicana di Santa Maria Novella “Jacopo Passavanti”.
The principal aim of this seminar is to provide an introduction to Italian archives (with particular emphasis on Florentine archival collections); to examine in-depth various documentary typologies; to read diverse early modern scripts; and to learn how to plan research in Italian archives and libraries.
Especially relevant for advanced graduate students studying Renaissance and early modern topics, this seminar is taught by a team of current and former MAP scholars, as well as university professors, MAP-affiliated researchers, and professional archivists at the Archivio di Stato in Florence.
Participating students will be taught at the Biblioteca Dominicana di Santa Maria Novella and the Archivio di Stato in Florence. Two visits to private archives are also planned. In addition, participants are encouraged to spend their mornings at the MAP office at the Archivio di Stato in Florence in order to work on their projects alongside current MAP fellows and scholars.
The seminar will run for two weeks, composed of twelve three-hour lessons (on average), and is limited to fifteen scholars (so that each participant will receive personal guidance).
Prospective applicants should send a one-page CV and a brief statement explaining how this course will benefit one’s current research to seminar@medici.org and ebrizio@medici.org by May 15, 2015. A working knowledge of Italian is required. Please note, as space is strictly limited, places will be offered on a first-come-first-served basis. The tuition fee for this seminar is US $1000, payable via PayPal upon acceptance (room and board are not included). See medici.org/educational-programs for the complete syllabus and class descriptions.
Lectures
- Manuscripts and Documents
- Archives in Florence
- History of the Medici Archive
- The Mediceo del Principato: Organization and Structure
- Letters: Production, Reception, Dissemination, Form and Content
- The Guardaroba Medicea and Florentine Inventories
- Heraldry and Related Resources
- Legal Archives
- Financial Archives
- Notarial Archives: Contracts and Wills
- Religious Archives: Churches, Convents and Confraternities
- Archival Research and History of Medicine
- Avvisi and Early Modern News Networks
- Early Modern Digital Archives
Visits
- Archivio di Stato di Firenze
- Archivio del Convento di San Marco
- Archivio Storico dell’Arciconfraternita dei Fiorentini (Rome)
- Archivio di Stato di Siena
- Archivio Capponi