IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1017: Entangled Commodities, I: Cloth Trade and Economic Networks in the Western Mediterranean
Wednesday 5 July 2023, 09.00-10.30
| Organiser: | Aysu Dinçer, Department of History, University of Warwick |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Aysu Dinçer, Department of History, University of Warwick |
| Respondent: | Anna Rich-Abad, Department of History, University of Nottingham |
| Paper 1017-a | Woollens and Cloth Markets in the Western Mediterranean in the 13th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Trade, Economics - Urban, Social History |
| Paper 1017-b | Domestic Cloth Trade in Barcelona in an Era of Apparent Economic Decline, c. 1480-1520 (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Rural, Economics - Trade, Economics - Urban |
| Abstract | The two 'entangled commodities' sessions aim to explore and discuss the cultural significance, trade, production, and uses of a range of commodities. The first session in this strand focuses on the local and international economic links involved in the production and trade of cloth in the Western Mediterranean. The first paper will examine the ways in which cloth from Flanders and Northern France reached consumers in the Mediterranean, exploring the role played by merchants from southern France who became crucial middlemen between producing centres and fairs in Languedoc and the Pyrenees where they met drapers. 'The second paper utilises an unexplored fiscal source from the city of Barcelona; the so-called Lleuda de Mediona, and examines the manufacture and exchange of woollen goods in the 15th and early 16th centuries. |