Colloque : “Renaissance (Dis)possession”, Bâle, Departement Geschichte, le 14 novembre 2025, de 14h15 à 18h30
The nature of possession in the Renaissance was to be contested. How could it have been otherwise? A rising merchant class owned more things than ever before, but emergent credit systems led to ruinous loss and repossession. A fractious and divided church alternatively clung to and purged worldly goods, finding new uses for buildings and grounds. The idea of self-possession was articulated as inherent to humanity even as it was denied to an ever-larger number...



