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Guidi Bruscoli F., Fifteenth-century Italian Account-books and English-speaking Medievalists: A Problematic Encounter, paper delivered at the workshop on Early modern account books: methodologies and approaches, Università Roma Tre, Rome (Italy), 19-20 June 2023
Guidi Bruscoli F., From the Mediterranean to the North Sea: Italian Merchants in England in the Late Middle Ages, paper delivered at the conference Interruptions and Disruptions in the Medieval Mediterranean, 400-1500, The Seventh Biennial Conference of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean (SMM), University of Crete, Rethymnon (Greece), 11-15 July 2022
Guidi Bruscoli F., Between Riots and Trade: the Italians, London and the Englishmen at the End of the Middle Ages, paper delivered at The “Foreigner” in Britain Conference, King’s College, London, 6-7 July 2017
Guidi Bruscoli F., Bills of exchange as a flexible instrument: Italian bankers in Northern Europe in the 15th century, paper delivered at the international conference on Histoire de l’économie sans travail. Finances, investissements et spéculation de l’Antiquité à nos jours, Villa Finaly (University of Paris), Florence (Italy), 8-10 June 2017
Bolton J.L. and Guidi Bruscoli F., The bill of exchange in theory and practice in the 1430s: the evidence of the Borromei ledgers, paper delivered at the international conference on Economic Issues of the Early Modern Period. Business Enterprises, Spaces, Markets, European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole (Italy), 24-26 November 2016
Guidi Bruscoli F., Digitalising Late Medieval Account Books: the Borromei Bank Research Project, paper delivered at MEDEA: Modeling semantically Enriched Digital Edition of Accounts, International Workshop, Wheaton College in Massachussets (USA), 7-8 April 2016
Guidi Bruscoli F., English mercers and the Italians in fifteenth-century London, paper delivered at the Renaissance Society of America, Annual Meeting, Berlin (Germany), 26-28 March 2015
Bolton J.L., Conclusions to the conference on England’s Immigrants, 1330-1550, King’s Manor, University of York, 14 February 2015
Guidi Bruscoli F., Immigrants to England, where did they come from? Italy, paper delivered at the conference on England’s Immigrants, 1330-1550, King’s Manor, University of York, 14 February 2015
Guidi Bruscoli F., Immigrant groups: Italy, paper delivered at the international workshop on England’s Immigrants, 1330-1550, University of York, York, 12-13 February 2015
Guidi Bruscoli F., Un progetto di digitalizzazione di libri contabili: il Borromei Bank Research Project, paper delivered at the conference Innovare nella Storia economica: temi, metodi, fonti, Rome (Italy), 10-11 October 2014
Bolton J.L., Closing remarks to the England’s Immigrants 1330-1550, International Workshop, University of York, 8-9 April 2014
Guidi Bruscoli F., Continental Case Studies: Italy, paper delivered at England’s Immigrants 1330-1550, International Workshop, University of York, 8-9 April 2014
Guidi Bruscoli F., London and its Merchants in the Italian Archives, 1380–1530, paper delivered at the conference Medieval Merchants and Money: A Conference in Celebration of the Work of Professor James L. Bolton, Senate House, London, 7-9 November 2013
Guidi Bruscoli F. and Lambert B., A spider in a European web: Antonio di Francesco da Volterra and the art of networking, 1419-59, paper delivered at the Economic History Society Annual Conference, Derwent/Old Langwith College, University of York, 5-7 April 2013
Guidi Bruscoli F., The Borromei Bank Research Project, risultati di una vasta indagine, paper delivered at the Study Day on Il programma di ricerca ENPrESA. Imprese, commercio e produzione in Europa. Le compagnie Salviati XIV-XVI secc., Pisa (Italy), Scuola Normale Superiore, 16 March 2013
Guidi Bruscoli F., Banchieri fiorentini tra Londra e Bruges nel XV secolo, paper delivered at the conference I mercanti toscani nel Mediterraneo e nell’Europa tardo medievale, Cagliari (Italy), 19-20 November 2010
Guidi Bruscoli F., "Perché era mal ghovernata". I mercanti-banchieri fiorentini del Rinascimento e la chiusura delle loro compagnie, tra fallimenti imprenditoriali e conflitti fra i soci, paper delivered at the conference Imprenditorialità e sviluppo economico: il caso italiano (secc. XIII-XX), Milan (Italy), 14-15 November 2008
Guidi Bruscoli F., The settlement of Florentine companies in Bruges in the early 15th century: common strategies and different attitudes, paper delivered at the conference Bridging the gap: problems of coordination and the organization of international commerce in late medieval European cities, Antwerp (Belgium), 7-8 December 2007
Guidi Bruscoli F., The network of Florentine merchant-banking companies in the North of Europe: collaboration vs competition, paper delivered at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 9-12 July 2007
Guidi Bruscoli F., The settlement of Florentine companies in Bruges in the early 15th century: common strategies and different attitudes, paper delivered at The XIV International Economic History Congress of the International Economic History Association (IEHA), Helsinki (Finland), 21-25 August 2006
Guidi Bruscoli F., Il credito tra nord e sud Europa nel XV secolo. L’evidenza dei mastri Borromei, paper delivered at the workshop Prima e dopo i Monti. Banchi cristiani, banchi ebraici e Monti di Pieta’ tra XV e XVI secolo, University of Venice (Italy), 8 March 2005
Bolton J.L. and Guidi Bruscoli F., When did Antwerp replace Bruges as the commercial and financial centre of north-western Europe? The evidence of the Borromei ledger for 1438, paper delivered at the conference The economic history of the Low Countries before 1850, University of Antwerp (Belgium), 18-19 November 2004
Guidi Bruscoli F., Exchange and the Money Market: Bruges, London and the Mediterranean World in the 1430s, paper delivered at the conference Banking, credit and finance in Late-Medieval and Renaissance Europe, Queen Mary, University of London, 7-9 September 2004
Bolton J.L. and Guidi Bruscoli F., Computing and medieval ledgers: the case of the Borromei account-books, paper delivered at the European Critical Accounting Studies Conference, Queen Mary, University of London, 27-29 June 2004
Bolton J.L. and Guidi Bruscoli F., The Borromei Bank Research Project, paper delivered at the conference Money, Markets and Trade in Late Medieval Europe: An International Workshop in Honour of John Munro, Toronto (Canada), 12-14 March 2004
Bolton J.L. and Guidi Bruscoli F., The Borromei family as international bankers in the late-14th and 15th centuries, paper delivered at the Economic History Society Annual Conference, Trevelyan College, University of Durham, 4-6 April 2003
Bolton J.L. and Guidi Bruscoli F., The power of the family: the Borromei as international bankers in the fifteenth century, paper delivered with J. Bolton at the conference “Transition and transformation in Medieval Italy, 500-1500”, Gonville & Cains, Cambridge, 2-3 April 2003
Guidi Bruscoli F., A Milanese Bank in Bruges and London in the 1430s: Filippo Borromei e compagni, paper delivered at “Wealth and Power in the Renaissance. Symposium”. The AHRB Centre for the Study of Renaissance Elites and Court Cultures, University of Warwick, 31 May 2002
Guidi Bruscoli F., The Borromei’s trade unveiled: digging for information in fifteenth-century account-books, lecture delivered at the Seminar in the History of the Book, Bodleian Libraries – University of Oxford, 5 February 2021 (online via Zoom)
Guidi Bruscoli F., I libri dei mercanti-banchieri, lecture delivered at the 1º Scuola dottorale del Centro Studi sui Monti di Pietà e sul credito solidaristico Far quadrare i conti. Contabilità e amministrazione negli antichi Monti di pietà, nei luoghi pii e nelle istituzioni civiche”/ “Balancing the books. Administration and bookkeeping in premodern charitable and civic agencies, Bologna (Italy), 24 June 2019
Guidi Bruscoli F., Londres et Bruges dans les livres comptables des compagnies italiennes (XIVe-XVIe siècles), paper delivered for the Séminaires de recherche on Entreprises, régions de productions et marchés en Europe (XIIIe-XVIIe siècle), École Normale Supérieure, Paris (France), 26 November 2014
Guidi Bruscoli F., The Borromei Bank Research Project, paper delivered at the Seminaires de l’ICT, Université de Paris VII, Paris (France), 14 March 2007
Bolton J.L. and Guidi Bruscoli F., Filippo Borromei and co.: a Milanese bank in Bruges and London from the 1430s to the 1450s, and the electronic versions of its ledgers, paper delivered at the “History Research Seminars”, University of Greenwich, London, 20 November 2003
Bolton J.L. and Guidi Bruscoli F., The Borromei Bank in London, 1436-1452, paper delivered at the “Medieval and Tudor London History” Seminars, Institute of Historical Research, London, 26 June 2003
Bolton J.L. and Guidi Bruscoli F., An Italian Bank in Bruges and London in the 1430s: the ledgers of Filippo Borromei e compagni of Milan, paper delivered at the “Medieval Economic and Social History Seminar”, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 13 November 2002
Bolton J.L. and Guidi Bruscoli F., Filippo Borromei e compagni: an Italian bank in Barcelona in the 1430s and 1440s, paper delivered at the “Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar”, Queen Mary, University of London, 28 June 2002
Bolton J.L. and Guidi Bruscoli F., Filippo Borromei e compagni: an Italian bank in London and Bruges in the 1430s and its ledgers, paper delivered at All Souls College, University of Oxford, 15 May 2002
Bolton J.L. and Guidi Bruscoli F., Two Milanese banks in the fifteenth century: Filippo Borromei e compagni di Brugia e Londra, paper delivered at the “Late-Medieval and Early-Modern Italy” Seminars, Institute of Historical Research, London, 21 March 2002
Guidi Bruscoli F., Italian merchant-bankers in England in the Late Middle Ages. A history of (many) successes and (spectacular) failures, British Institute, Florence, 21 September 2016
Guidi Bruscoli F., The Borromei at the Papal court and their mercantile network across Europe, lecture delivered at the Beinecke Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, New Haven CT (USA), 30 March 2010
Banking and finance in Late-Medieval and Renaissance Europe, Queen Mary, University of London, 7-9 September 2004