Close Ties? The Economic Impacts of ‘Feudal’ Lordship in the Middle Ages
RHN 124/2023 | Event
https://www.ruralhistory.eu/newsletter/2023/rhn-2023-124
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Organisers: Tanja Skambraks, Institut für Geschichte, Universität Graz, and Spike Gibbs, Historisches Institut, Universität Mannheim
11–13 December 2023, University of Mannheim, Germany
Close Ties? The Economic Impacts of ‘Feudal’ Lordship in the Middle Ages
Three day workshop at the University of Mannheim
Programme
Monday 11th December
14.00-14.30 – Welcome
15.00-18.00 – Excursion to Speyer
18.30 – Dinner in Speyer (Goldner Hirsch)
20.00 – Return from Speyer to Mannheim
Tuesday 12th December
10.00-10.15 – Coffee Break
10.15-10.30 – Academic Introduction (Spike Gibbs)
10.30-12.30 - Panel 1
Feudalism in Foreign Fields: The Case of Medieval Myanmar
Tilman Frasch (Manchester Metropolitan)
Ties, credit and taxes: collective indebtedness in small towns and rural communities under seigneurial power (Catalonia, 14-15th centuries)
Albert Reixach Sala (Lleida)
The Noble Landlord as Grain Seller. The Development of Rural Market Economy and Market Society in Northwest Germany, 1650 1900
Friederike Scholten-Buschhoff (Münster/Möhnesee)
12.30-13.30 – Lunch
13.30-15.30 - Panel 2
A Tale of Two Seigneuries. The Political Economy of “Good Lordship” and “Bad Lordship” in the County of Flanders
Thijs Lambrecht and Federik Buylaert (Ghent)
The seigneurial life of things: lordship, consumption, and expropriation in late-medieval England
Tom Johnson (York)
‘Feudalism,’ Jural Subjecthood and Peasant Resistance in Early Modern Eurasia
Govind Sreenivasan (Brandeis)
15.30-16.00 – Coffee Break
16.00-18.00 – Panel 3
What made a successful career in managing seigneurial agriculture? Evidence from the Clare estate, 1317-60
Jerome Gasson (Cambridge)
The Economy of Weapons in Carolingian Europe
Daniel Föller (Frankfurt/Stuttgart)
A feudal economy? The economy of “Scottish lordship” in the 15th and 16th century
Sebastian Weil (Mainz)
18.15-19.15 – Keynote
Serfdom in theory and practice on the eve of the Black Death: England and south-west Germany and Austria compared
Mark Bailey (University of East Anglia)
19.30 – Dinner in Mannheim (Rheinterrassen)
Wednesday 13th December
9.30-11.30 - Panel 4
From Mode of Production to Regime of Accumulation. Armenian Lordship in the Global Middle Ages
Nicholas Matheou (Edinburgh)
Surplus extraction and agrarian capitalism in Late Medieval Guelders (ca. 1460- ca. 1560)
Reinder Klinkhamer (Ghent)
Who Wins, Who Loses? Relations of Production along the Austrian Danube, 1250-1367
Leonard Engelmaier (Vienna)
11.30-12.00 – Coffee Break
12.00-12.15 – Closing Remarks (Tanja Skambraks)
Contact
Please email alex.spike.gibbs@uni-mannheim.de for free registration.
Source: www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-140064