Sowing the Seeds VI: A Workshop for Early-Career Medieval Economic and Social Historians
June 15, 2019, London School of Economics
You can download the Book of Abstracts here: Book of Abstracts [PDF]
Programme
9:30 – 10:00 Welcome, Registration and Coffee
10:00 – 11:00 Dr. Chris Briggs, University of Cambridge
Felons' chattels and living standards in the fifteenth century
11:00 – 11:20 Coffee
11:20 – 12:50 Session 1: Managing the Medieval Economy: Work, Wages and Officials
Ryan Wicklund, University of Durham, Manorial Managers and Agricultural Accounts
Grace Owen, University of Birmingham, The Rewards of Peasant Officialdom in Fourteenth-Century England
Taylor Aucoin, University of Bristol, Homo Economicus or Homo Ludens? Factoring Festive Culture and Social Distinction into the English Working Year, c. 1260-1500
12:50 – 1:50 Lunch
1:50 – 3:20 Session 2: Beyond the Cloister: The Economies of Monastic Orders
Federico Trombetta, University of Warwick, Ora et Guberna: The Economic Impact of Benedict’s Rule in Medieval England
Rowena McCallum, Queen’s University Belfast, The Integration of the Medicant Orders in Late Medieval Dublin
Jakob Schneebacher, University of Oxford, Monastic Orders, Feudal Control and Public Goods in Medieval England
3:20 – 3:40 Coffee
3:40 – 5:10 Session 3: Inequality, Human Capital and Crises in the Middle Ages
Felix Schaff, London School of Economics, When ‘war made the state’, what happened to economic inequality? Military conflicts and the beginning of the inequality rise in premodern Germany (c. 1400 – 1648)
Stef Espeel, University of Antwerp, Managing the Food Shocks of the Great Transition: Flemish Cities and the Food Crises of the Fourteenth Century
Rhiannon Sandy, Swansea University, Reconsidering the Cost of Apprenticeship
5:10 – 6:40 Session 4: New Directions in Medieval Economic History, a Roundtable
Gregory Clark, UC Davis, Daniel Curtis Erasmus University Rotterdam, Chris Briggs, University of Cambridge and Jordan Claridge, London School of Economics