We are happy to announce the official programme of our webinar series on ‘Monetary Policy in Times of Crisis (5th-16th Centuries)’ sponsored by ESRC and The University of Manchester.
The event will be held online via Zoom and everyone is welcome.
For registration and information, please email Dr Stefano Locatelli at stefano.locatelli@manchester.ac.uk by 15 March 2021.
PROGRAMME
DAY 1 Tuesday 16 March 2021
2.30 – 3.30pm Introduction
What We Talk About When We Talk About ‘Crisis’ in Medieval Monetary History
Stefano Locatelli (University of Manchester)
3.00 – 3.30pm
Monetary Policy and the Norman Conquest of England in 1066
Martin Allen (University of Cambridge)
3.30 – 4.00pm
Money and Legal Culture: The Glossators’ Reaction to Monetary Crises (12th-13th Century)
David De Concilio (University of St Andrews/Universita degli Studi di Rome Tre)
DAY 2 Wednesday 17 March 2021
2.30 – 3.00pm
Paper Money in Yuan China, 1261-1361
Meng Wu (London School of Economics)
3.00 – 3.30pm
Credit and Coin in Times of Crisis: Medieval England, 1283-1532
Tony Moore (University of Reading), Don Bredin and Thomas Conlon (University College Dublin)
3.30 – 4.00pm
Monetary Regulation as State Capacity and State Formation: The Example of the Early Saxon Thaler/Dollar, 1490s-1530s
Philipp Rossner (University of Manchester)
DAY 3 Thursday 18 March 2021
10.30 – 11.00am
Liquidity Problems in Venetian Crete
Irene Sotiropoulou (University of Hull)
11.00 – 11.30am
Social and Economic Implications of Solving the Money Deficit Problem Through Foreign Borrowing in SIxteenth-Century England
Maria Aleksandrova (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
11.30 – 12.30am
Keynote Lecture: Trade in Coinage, Gresham’s Law and the Drive to Monetary Unification: The Holy Roman Empire 1519-59
Oliver Volckart (London School of Economics)