Medieval Economic and Social History Seminar - Oxford Talks

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Medieval Economic and Social History Seminar

There will be a lunchtime series (running in Oriel, weeks 1, 3, 5, and 7) and a late-afternoon series (running in the History Faculty, weeks 2, 6, and 8)

Lunchtime seminars, MacGregor Room, Oriel College, Thursdays 13:00-14:00 (tea and coffee provided; you are welcome to bring your own lunch)

Afternoon seminars, Rees Davies Room, History Faculty, Thursdays 17:00-18:30 (wine and soft drinks served during discussion)

Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers: Elizabeth Gemmill , Ian Forrest
Timing: Thursdays, 13:00-14:00 Weeks 1, 3, 5, & 7 / 17:00-18:30 Weeks 2, 6 & 8

Thursday 26 April 2018

17:00 - ‘The economic experience of the medieval north east: the evidence from Durham Cathedral Priory’.
Elizabeth Gemmill (Kellogg)

Thursday 3 May 2018

17:00 - ‘A bad manager? Uberto di Passignano (1197-1205) and economic change in high-medieval Tuscany’
Lorenzo Tabarrini (Linacre)

Thursday 10 May 2018

17:00 - ‘The Rise of Sukhothai in the Global Perspective: Metal Industries and Agglomeration’
Phacha Phanomvan (St John’s)

Thursday 17 May 2018

17:00 - ‘The Medieval Woollen Cloth Industry - A Case Study of Suffolk’
Nicholas Amor (University of East Anglia)

Thursday 24 May 2018

17:00 - ‘The Norman Conquest of Hampshire: the Landed Wealth of English Royal Officials in 1086’
Katherine Blayney

Thursday 31 May 2018

17:00 - ‘Felons' chattels and the English economy in the fifteenth century'
Chris Briggs (University of Cambridge), Matthew Tompkins (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 7 June 2018

17:00 - : 'Participatory taxation, public debt audits, and bottom-up austerity: the role of the commons in the administration of communal finances. Burgos & Tournai, 1420-1520'
Pablo Gonzalez Martin (Queens)

Thursday 14 June 2018

17:00 - ‘Migration and Politics: English Colonial Enterprises in the 14th Century’
Brendan Smith (University of Bristol)

Thursday 2 May 2019

13:00 - Syon Abbey: from a palace of prayer to poverty and back again. Estates, buildings and patronage before and after exile c.1415-1600
Virginia Bainbridge (Manorial Documents Register, Oxfordshire)

Thursday 9 May 2019

17:00 - The fields of Britannia: changing patterns of land-use in early medieval England
Stephen Rippon (University of Exeter)

Thursday 16 May 2019

13:00 - The economics of peace-keeping: loans and factions in a late medieval polity
Please note change of title
Lorenzo Caravaggi (Balliol College, Oxford)

Thursday 30 May 2019

13:00 - Rok, clacke, bass: articulating pleasure in Middle English
Alice Raw (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)

Thursday 6 June 2019

17:00 - Waifs and strays: property rights in late medieval England
Jordan Claridge (LSE), Alex Gibbs (LSE)

Thursday 13 June 2019

13:00 - Man in the ordinary business of life: fifteenth-century decline, calls for social reform, and the special case of semi-rural hospitals in England
Carol Fry (St Cross)

Thursday 20 June 2019

17:00 - Wretched girls, wretched boys, and the European marriage pattern in England, c. 1250-1350
NB: Room change - Gerry Martin Room
Judith Bennett (University of Southern California)

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Editors: Laura Spence, Belinda Clark

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