IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 138: Medieval Economy and Society
Monday 6 July 2015, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | N. W. Posthumus Institute, Universiteit Leiden |
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| Organiser: | Jaco Zuijderduijn, Institute for History, Universiteit Leiden |
| Moderator/Chair: | Jaco Zuijderduijn, Institute for History, Universiteit Leiden |
| Paper 138-a | Demographic Shocks, Labour Institutions, and Wage Divergence in Premodern Europe (Language: English) Index terms: Demography, Economics - General |
| Paper 138-b | Economic Responses to Environmental Crises: Louis II in Dauphiné, 1447-1456 (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - General, Economics - Rural |
| Paper 138-c | Breaking the Piggy Bank: What Can Historical and Archaeological Sources Tell Us about Late-Medieval Saving Behaviour? (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Economics - General, Numismatics, Social History |
| Abstract | The Middle Ages are widely regarded as the starting point for crucial social and economic developments in European history. Students of urbanization and the rise of capitalism, consumption and fashion, marriage patterns and individualization, and many other topics, look to the medieval period to explain fundamental changes leading to the 'Rise of the West'. However, reading their work also makes clear the Middle Ages are not always well-understood, so medievalists can make a valuable contribution by going in debate with social scientists. This session is open to participants who do precisely this: contrasting medieval socioeconomic research to widely held assumptions about the development of medieval society. |