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Papers on Medieval Prosopography: Session #47 at KZOO 2015

Medievalists.net — Sat, 30 May 2015 00:49:56 +0000

Three fantastic papers on Prosopography from #KZOO2015.

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Environmental Crusading: The Teutonic Knight’s Impact After the Baltic Crusades

Medievalists.net — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 22:44:57 +0000

Environmental archaeologist and Professor of Archeology at Reading, Dr. Aleks Pluskowski, examined Malbork and several other sites across Eastern and Northern Europe in his recent paper, The Ecology of Crusading: The Environmental Impact of Holy War, Colonisation, and Religious Conversion in the Medieval Baltic. Pluskowski is keenly interested in the impact the Teutonic Knights and Christian colonisation had on the region. His ambitious 4 year project on the ecological changes in this area recently came to a close at the end of 2014.

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Of sagas and sheep: Toward a historical anthropology of social change and production for market, subsistence and tribute in early Iceland

Medievalists.net — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 12:50:13 +0000

This dissertation deals with the formation of chiefdoms, communities, ecclesiastical institutions and state, and with production for market, subsistence and tribute in early Iceland in the context of climatic change and ecological succession.

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Urban Territories in Late Medieval Brussels. Imagined Frontiers and Responsible Institutions

Medievalists.net — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 19:58:23 +0000

This chapter focuses on the spatial analysis of intra-urban territories which existed in late medieval and early modern Brussels (Belgium). By studying their morphological characteristics and origins, I seek to understand their functions within urban society.

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Taxes, Loans, Credit and Debts in the 15th Century Towns of Moravia: A Case Study of Olomouc and Brno

Medievalists.net — Sun, 07 Sep 2014 18:59:32 +0000

The paper explores urban public finance in the late medieval towns on the example of two largest cities in Moravia—Olomouc and Brno.

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Real and imaginary journeys in the later Middle Ages

Medievalists.net — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 20:18:16 +0000

For a proper understanding of the actions of men in the past it is necessary to have some idea of how they conceived the world and their place in it, yet for the medieval period there is a serious inbalance in the sources.

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Pedlars and Alchemists in Friuli History of itinerant sellers in an alpine reality

Medievalists.net — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 18:50:06 +0000

This short review discusses about itinerant sellers in Friuli, who are Cramaro called (XI-XIX centuries). Attention is focused, in particular, on the question if some of theme were alchemists.

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Venetian Trading Networks in the Medieval Mediterranean

Medievalists.net — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 12:57:23 +0000

To understand the system of business relations within the commercial network of the Republic of Venice, this article adopts a network analysis that differs from a standard narrative based on a privileged subset of actors or relations. It allows us to examine the socially mixed group of entrepreneurs, brokers, and shippers at the heart of Venice’s economic system.

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Did Purchasing Power Parity Hold in Medieval Europe?

Medievalists.net — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 08:22:52 +0000

This paper employs a unique, hand-collected dataset of exchange rates for five major currencies (the lira of Barcelona, the pound sterling of England, the pond groot of Flanders, the florin of Florence and the livre tournois of France) to consider whether the law of one price and purchasing power parity held in Europe during the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries.

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England’s First Attempt to Break the Commercial Monopoly of the Hanseatic League, 1377-1380

Medievalists.net — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 16:47:17 +0000

During the second half of the fourteenth century English traders first seriously threatened the Hanseatic League's commercial monopoly in the Baltic. The League, attempting to defendits monopoly, treated the English unjustly,where upon in 1377 the English Parliament rescinded the charter that granted the League important concessions and privileges in its English trade.

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