Cultural Life of Money and Finance 4: Dante and contemporary financialisation, with Mark Davis and Matthew Treherne

The Cultural Life of Money and Finance podcast explores money and finance through the arts and humanities – asking new questions about finance, the global financial system, and financial behaviour in the twenty-first century. In a series of conversations with researchers and practitioners, we look at how money is being, and has been, thought about in different contexts – across historical, cultural, ethical, religious, social, and material settings.

The Cultural Life of Money and Finance project is based at the University of Leeds, and is led by Matthew Treherne, Rachel Muers and Mark Davis.  The project is supported by the Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute, and by the Leeds Creative Labs scheme at the Cultural Institute at the University of Leeds.

In this episode, Mark and Matthew discuss Dante's response to developments in finance in late medieval Italy, exploring how the issues associated with avarice, usury and banking connect with twenty-first-century concerns about credit and debt, green finance, and the effects of economic growth. 

The conversation was first recorded as part of the Leeds Dante Podcast series, "Conversations on Dante", in October 2020. 

For more information on the Culture Life of Money and Finance Project, please visit https://culturallifeofmoney.leeds.ac.uk, and follow us on Twitter @CulturalMoney.