Revised text for this call:
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]
The session will cover any or all of the following, or additional issues
relating to markets, trade, and/or the related role of guilds in the
fourteenth century: 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.
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