In an unconventional answer to a roundtable on her last book, **The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of Commercial Society**, Francesca Trivellato reads the echos of her subject in the recent installation of concept artist Christoph Büchel, "Monte di pietà," at the Venice Biennale.

➡️ Francesca TRIVELLATO, There’s More to Debt Than Meets the Eye
👉 https://doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.18

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Eighty letters, never opened, sent to the crew of a French ship captured by the Royal Navy during the Seven Years' War.

Renaud MORIEUX @renaudmorieux (Cambridge University) opened them. And, beyond the emotional dimension of doing so across centuries, he shares with us a multifaceted analysis of a coastal, maritime community in eighteenth-century Europe.

➡️ Lost Letters. Epistolary Communities, War, and Familial Ties in the Maritime Atlantic World of the Eighteenth Century

👉 https://doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.15

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In the Central Peruvian Sierra, one ritual has been performed since the 16th century. The "Dance of the Conquest" mixes together masses, processions, banquets, dances through the community, at the intersection of religion and politics.

Combining ethnography and history, Isabel Yaya McKenzie offers, in this layered article, a fascinating reflection on #longuedurée, #memory, and lived temporalities.

➡️ Isabel YAYA McKENZIE, Dimensions of Time in a Ritual Drama: A Historical Anthropology of a “Conquest Dance” in the Central Peruvian Sierra from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-first Century

👉 https://doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.16

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