IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 619: The Materiality of Credit across Europe: A Comparative Perspective
Tuesday 2 July 2019, 11.15-12.45
Organiser: | Stephan Köhler, Historisches Institut, Universität Mannheim |
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Moderator/Chair: | Hiram Kümper, Historisches Institut, Universität Mannheim |
Paper 619-a | Medieval Crowdfunding: Find Creditors, Make Friends! (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - General, Social History, Theology |
Paper 619-b | The Role of Tallies in Medieval Debt: Sources, Problems, Approaches (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Daily Life, Economics - General, Social History |
Paper 619-c | Coins and Credit in the Middle Ages: A Somewhat Obscure Relationship of Everyday Payment (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Daily Life, Economics - General, Numismatics |
Paper 619-d | Lending Money and Pawnbroking in the Alpine Region: Comital Pawnshops in 13th-Century Tyrol (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - General, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Social History |
Abstract | The main problem of the research on small-scale credit relationships in medieval societies has been the lack of sources, since everyday economic practices of mutual debt were usually run informally and have not been documented. Recently the discussion has been stimulated by new impulses, particularly in the area of urban credit practices. This session is based on the original research studies about different regions (Tyrol, England, …) and contributes to this research field with the exemplary analysis of the materiality of sources (ie. tally sticks, account books, notaries) that so far have not been used for this purpose. |