For the 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo,
May 12-15, 2011, The Fourteenth Century Society now welcomes proposals
for the following sessions:
1. Questioning the Fourteenth-Century Crisis
Organizer: Marie Kelleher, [log in to unmask]
2. Cities in the Fourteenth Century
Organizer: David Mengel, [log in to unmask]
3. Crime and Punishment in the Fourteenth Century
Organizer: Claire Fanger, [log in to unmask]
4. Markets, Trade and Guilds: Perspectives on Fourteenth-Century
Developments
Organizer: Marie Ito, [log in to unmask]
Commodity and financial markets - characteristics and structure;
products and instruments traded; centralized markets versus periodic or
circuit markets – their nature and economic and societal functions;
international, regional, and/or local markets; distribution networks;
transportation, including risks and costs; the nature and role of market
participants – dealers, traders, consumers; communications between
markets and market participants in differing localities or regions;
information flows, information and transaction costs, pricing and
trading issues; market efficiencies and inefficiencies; supply issues;
price volatility; forms of manipulation; documentation of transactions;
payments; credit; transfers of goods and assets; means of exchange; the
role of guilds in operating and regulating markets and trading,
overseeing market participants, and restricting or promoting trade and
particular market forms or venues; consideration of both major and minor
guilds and extra-guild commercial activity; governmental regulation of
each or any of these areas.
Further details at
http://fourteenthcenturysociety.celestiscuria.org/kazoo.html
Please submit abstracts directly to the organizer for the session in
which you are interested prior to September 15, 2010.
