Congresses and Meetings

BULLION TRADE IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN EUROPE, 15-16 October 2020

Faculty of Humanities, Charles Universityorganizes on October 15 – 16, 2020 the 3rd Prague international conference in economic history Bullion Trade in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.

Live streaming and recording via ZOOM https://cuni-cz.zoom.us/j/7974510228

Thursday 15 October

PROGRAMME

10:00 CET/9:00AM GMT – 18:10 CET/5:10PM GMT

10:00 – 10:20
Welcome speech
Iva Holmerová
Vice-dean, Charles University, Faculty of Humanities & Roman Zaoral, Conference organizer, Charles University, Faculty of Humanities

10:20 – 12:50
Session I:
Chair: Claudio Marsilio

10:20 – 10:50
Dariusz Adamczyk (Deutsches Historisches Institut, Warschau) Hoarding silver in High Medieval East Central Europe: Economic wealth, backwardness or war?
10:50 – 11:10
Discussion

11:10 – 11:40
Roger Svensson (Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Stockholm) The Secrets of Emergency Debasements
11:40 – 12:00
Discussion

12:00 – 12:30
Piotr Guzowski (University of Bialystok)
Mint production as the source of royal income in Poland and Lithuania under Jagiellonian Rule (14th-16th centuries)
12:30 – 12:50

Discussion

12:50 – 13:30

Midday break (open space for online discussion)

13:30 – 16:00 Session II
Chair: Roman Zaoral

13:30 – 14:00
Borys Paszkiewicz (University of Wrocław)
Where did Polish Mints get silver in the Middle Ages? A new attempt to answer the old question
14:00 – 14:20
Discussion

14:20 – 14:50
Alan M. Stahl (Princeton University)
Venice in the transformation of northern bullion to Mediterranean money: The evidence of the Condulmer account books (1388–1413)
14:50 – 15:10
Discussion

15:10 – 15:40
Katalin Prajda (Harvard University, Villa I Tatti, Florence)
Florentines’ Involvement in Bullion Trade in the Kingdom of Hungary in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
15:40 – 16:00
Discussion

16:00 – 16:30
Coffee break (open space for online discussion)

16:30 – 18:10
Session III
Chair: Claudio Marsilio

16:30 – 17:00
Grzegorz Myśliwski (Warsaw University)
The Wrocław trade in precious metals from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries
17:00 – 17:20
Discussion

17:20 – 17:50
Anna Paulina Orłowska (Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences) Coins in the trade of Danzig merchant in the 15th century
17:50 – 18:10
Discussion

Friday 16 October

10:00 CET/9:00AM GMT – 15:10 CET/2:10PM GMT

10:00 – 12:30 Session IV
Chair: Roman Zaoral

10:00 – 10:30
Nuno Palma (University of Manchaster)
Money and precious metal inflows in early modern Spain

10:30 – 10:50
Discussion

10:50 – 11:20
Claudio Marsilio (University of Lisbon)
Spanish bullion in times of crisis. New evidences from Genoa (1640s-1690s)

11:20 – 11:40
Discussion

11:40 – 12:10
Oliver J. Volckart (London School of Economics)
Trade in coinage as the object of monetary policies in the 16th-century Holy Roman Empire
12:10 – 12:30
Discussion

12:30 – 13:00

Midday break (open space for online discussion)

13:00 – 15:10
Session V
Chair: Claudio Marsilio

13:00 – 13:30
Petr Vorel (University of Pardubice)
The volume and organization of silver supply to the papal mint in Rome in 1643–1644
13:30 – 13:50
Discussion

13:50 – 14:20
Viktors Dāboliņš (University of Tartu)
How much silver was reminted in the mint of Riga from 1598 to 1621?

14:20 – 14:40
Discussion

14:40 – 15:10
Roman Zaoral (Charles University) Concluding remarks