IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1751: Settlements, Natural Resources, and Economy: New Studies about Medieval Central Europe
Thursday 5 July 2018, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest |
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Organiser: | Balázs Nagy, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest |
Moderator/Chair: | József Laszlovszky, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest |
Paper 1751-a | Towns and Their Environment: Urban Law Books in the Magdeburg-Saxon Tradition from the 14th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Urban, Law, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 1751-b | Transformation of the Settlement Network in the Carpathian Basin between 1200 and 1500 (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Rural, Economics - Urban, Geography and Settlement Studies |
Paper 1751-c | Nature Conservation: A Revival of Medieval Resource Management? (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Rural, Geography and Settlement Studies |
Paper 1751-d | Towards a New Synthesis of Medieval Economic History of Hungary: Questions and Lessons (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - General, Historiography - Modern Scholarship |
Abstract | The session will collect papers reflecting new researches about various fields of medieval studies of Central Europe. The paper of Sébastien Rossignol will investigate the legal context of urbanisation in the region, Beatrix F. Romhányi will speak about long-term changes in settlement structure in medieval Hungary. Péter Szabó will explore the changing approaches towards natural resources in the Middle Ages and thereafter. Balázs Nagy will present the new English language synthesis of economic history of medieval Hungary, raising methodological and conceptual questions the editors were confronted. |