IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1214: 'Owing Me, Knowing You': Credit Relations and Personal Networks in 14th-Century Tyrol
Wednesday 5 July 2023, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Stephan Köhler, Historisches Institut, Universität Mannheim |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Thomas Ertl, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin |
| Paper 1214-a | Credit Networks in 14th-Century Tyrol: Notary Registers as Sources for Medieval Capital Markets (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Economics - General, Local History, Social History |
| Paper 1214-b | Confarrea et impera: The Role of Chivalric Networks as a Source of Political Power in 14th-Century Tyrol (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Local History, Political Thought, Social History |
| Paper 1214-c | Connections, Credit, and Careers: The Importance of Personal and Financial Networks for Tyrolean Officials in the 14th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Archives and Sources, Economics - General, Social History |
| Abstract | How did medieval people use their networks to profit economically, socially, and politically? Did different social groups rely on different types of connections? Which role did business relationships, friendship, and kinship play for people of different social backgrounds? In this session, these questions will be discussed by taking a closer look at the inhabitants of Meran and its surroundings - the smaller functional elite of the royal officials, and the few nobles in the county of Tyrol in the 14th century. Credit relations and personal bonds are analysed by using a variety of sources to make networks and their impact on political, social, and economic structures visible. |