A New Deal: Bruges Burghers and Venetian Merchants Invent Mercantile Gambling
A New Deal: Bruges Burghers and Venetian Merchants Invent Mercantile Gambling By David G. Schwartz XIV International Economic History Congress (2006) Introduction: Today,…
Money and trust. Amsterdam moneylenders and the rise of the modern state, 1478-1794
Money and trust. Amsterdam moneylenders and the rise of the modern state, 1478-1794 By Marjolein ‘t Hart XIV International Economic History Congress (2006)…
Enforcing cooperation among medieval merchants: The Maghribi traders revisited
Enforcing cooperation among medieval merchants: The Maghribi traders revisited By David Harbord Unpublished, 2006 Abstract: We revisit Greif’s (1993) analysis of trade between the 11th-century…
Polish-Flemish Trade in the Middle Ages
Polish-Flemish Trade in the Middle Ages By Marion Malowist Baltic and Scandinavian Countries, Vol.4:1 (1938) Synopsis: Comparatively little is known regarding Poland’s foreign trade…
Bruges and the German Hanse: Brokering European Commerce
Bruges and the German Hanse: Brokering European Commerce By Peter Stabel The Sea in European History, edited by Luc François and Ann Katherine Isaacs (University…
Western Africa To circa 1860 A.D.: A Provisional Historical Schema Based On Climate Period
Western Africa To circa 1860 A.D.: A Provisional Historical Schema Based On Climate Period By George E. Brooks African Studies Program, Indiana University:…
Regional fairs, institutional innovation and economic growth in late medieval Europe
Regional fairs, institutional innovation and economic growth in late medieval Europe By Stephan Epstein Economic history review, 2nd ser., 47 (1994) Synopsis: Examines…
The textile industry and the foreign cloth trade in late medieval Sicily (1300-1500): a “colonial relationship”?’
The textile industry and the foreign cloth trade in late medieval Sicily (1300-1500): a “colonial relationship”? By Stephen Epstein Journal of Medieval History,…
London: The Forgotten Hanseatic City
London: The Forgotten Hanseatic City Chaired by Tim Connell Lectures given on June 14, 2007 Synopsis: Die Hanse (the Hansa – the Hanseatic…
The Birka Warrior: the material culture of a martial society
The warriors from Birka’s Garrison had a share in the martial development of contemporary Europe but with their own particular traits.