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MEDIEVAL BOOKS: Black Friday!

Medievalists.net — Fri, 27 Nov 2015 02:11:21 +0000

Here are a few recent releases for medievalists hunting for Black Friday books and early Christmas gifts!

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Fair Trade?: A Look at the Hanseatic League

Medievalists.net — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 22:21:21 +0000

In the 14th century, an ongoing feud ensued between the Hanseatic League and non-Hanse merchants. Here's a quick look at the rise and fall of the one of the most powerful organizations of the Late Middle Ages.

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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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Flee the loathsome shadow: Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) and the Medici in Florence

Medievalists.net — Sun, 09 Nov 2014 23:30:30 +0000

This article examines the changing political landscape of Medicean Florence, from Cosimo de’ Medici (1389-1464) to his grandson Lorenzo the Magnificent (1449-1492), through the letters of the celebrated neo-Platonist philosopher Marsilio Ficino (1433-99).

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CONFERENCES: Arnold Fitz Thedmar: an Early London chronicler

Medievalists.net — Sat, 04 Oct 2014 12:51:17 +0000

Another fascinating paper given at the Institute for Historical Research in central London. For those of you interested in chronicles, urban history and London, this paper was definitely for you. Ian Stone discussed his dissertation about thirteenth century London through the eyes of wealthy Alderman, Arnold Fitz Thedmar.

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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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Time, space and power in later medieval Bristol

Medievalists.net — Mon, 26 May 2014 11:51:53 +0000

With a population of almost 10,000, Bristol was later medieval England’s second or third biggest urban place, and the realm’s second port after London. While not particularly large or wealthy in comparison with the great cities of northern Italy, Flanders or the Rhineland, it was a metropolis in the context of the British Isles.

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