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IMC 2011: Sessions

Session 1119: Italian Merchants in Northern Europe in the Later Middle Ages: Prosperity and Disaster

Wednesday 13 July 2011, 11.15-12.45

Organiser:Christine E. Meek, Department of History, Trinity College Dublin
Moderator/Chair:Christine E. Meek, Department of History, Trinity College Dublin
Paper 1119-aThe Niccolo Rosso's Cargo and Venetian Trade with Bruges, 1403
(Language: English)
Eleanor A. Congdon, Department of History, Youngstown State University, Ohio
Index terms: Economics - Trade, Maritime and Naval Studies, Social History
Paper 1119-bA Bond Stronger than Death: The Partnership between Bartolomeo Bettini and Filippo Rapondi (1415-1425)
(Language: English)
Bart Lambert, Vakgroep Geschiedenis, Universiteit Gent
Index terms: Economics - Trade, Mentalities
Paper 1119-cThe Lucchese and French Royal Libraries: The Patronage and Purveyance of Luxury Manuscripts in the Late 14th and Early 15th Centuries
(Language: English)
Geoffrey Nuttall, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
Index terms: Art History - Decorative Arts, Economics - Trade, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Abstract

The session will examine the opportunities and the risks of trade between Italy and Northern Europe in the Later Middle Ages. While Italian merchants could flourish and prosper abroad, despite being at odds with the regime in their own city, and could become influential figures at foreign courts and serve as important conduits for cultural interchanges, they also faced many risks of loss from adverse trading conditions, shipwreck or piracy that might reduce them from wealth to poverty.