IMC 2003: Sessions
Session 1014: Markets and Authority: Reviewing Traditional Paradigms
Wednesday 16 July 2003, 09.00-10.30
| Organiser: | Robert Braid, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 |
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| Moderator/Chair: | James Davis, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge |
| Paper 1014-b | Labour Policy in 13th-Century Paris (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Urban, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1014-c | Evading Authority: Side-Effects of Labour Policy on Employment Practices in 14th-Century France (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - General, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | This session analyses the government of markets, in particular that of labor markets, in late-medieval England and France. The first paper examines urban records from England to review the common assumption that guilds constituted monopolies. The second reviews thirteenth-century manuscripts from Parisian authorities to establish a chronology of legislation to refute the idea that economic policy was static. The third paper looks at the effects of royal policy on labor markets in fourteenth-century France to point out the flexibility of employment practices. Overall, the session highlights the problems with traditional paradigms of medieval economic policy. |