IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 1630: Trust across Borders, I

Thursday 7 July 2022, 11.15-12.45

Organisers:	Annabel Hancock, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York Siyao Jiang, Faculty of History, University of Oxford
Moderator/Chair:	Catherine Holmes, Faculty of History, University of Oxford
Respondent:	Catherine Holmes, Faculty of History, University of Oxford
Paper 1630-a	A Comparison of Trusting Behaviour between Chinese Maritime Merchants, Foreign Merchants, and the Chinese Hinterland, 13th-14th Centuries (Language: English) Siyao Jiang, Faculty of History, University of Oxford Index terms: Economics - Trade, Economics - Urban, Social History
Paper 1630-b	'Dicam et scribam veritatem': Trust in Agreements between Merchants in Barcelona and Mallorca, 1240-1350 (Language: English) Annabel Hancock, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York Index terms: Economics - Trade, Maritime and Naval Studies, Social History
Paper 1630-c	Edward II's Domestic Creditors: Loans from the City of London to the Crown, 1307-1327 (Language: English) Robin McCallum, School of History & Anthropology, Queen's University Belfast Sharon Mallen, Banbridge Community History & Archaeology Research Group, Banbridge Index terms: Economics - General, Economics - Urban
Abstract	The first of two sessions explores historical trust. This panel looks at trust between various social groups, including merchant communities in global context, in south-eastern China, western Mediterranean, and London during the 13th and 14th centuries. The first paper seeks to analyse how varied trust was practiced in Chinese port cities during the Song and Yuan dynasties through a comparative study of three border-crossing groups: Chinese maritime merchants, foreign merchants, and Chinese residents from inland agricultural towns. The second paper examines trading contracts in Barcelona and Mallorca to explore the formation of individual trusting relationships. It seeks to investigate how factors such as faith, gender, and citizenship affected trust-making practices. The third paper examines the loans from the City of London and its residents to the crown between 1307 and 1327 for the defence of the kingdom. It traces the origins of this new financial policy to the political crisis of 1310-11 during the reign of Edward II.