The Rise, Expansion, and Decline of the Italian Cloth Industries, 1100 - 1730: a study in conjoncture, transaction costs, and comparative advantage [PDF]
This study of the Italian wool-based textile industries (woollens, worsteds, and serges) seeks to examine its rise, expansion, and ultimate decline, over a period of five centuries (from ca. 1200 to ca.
John H. Munro
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Mills and society in early medieval northern Italy
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 3-33, February 2026.Drawing on the extensive documentary record of northern Italy, available archaeological evidence, and comparative case studies from early medieval Europe, this study demonstrates that mill‐based landscapes in the Po and Friuli‐Venetian plains were shaped by society as a whole.
Marco Panato
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Trade, urban hinterlands and market integration, 1300-1600: a summing up [PDF]
, 2000 Paper given at a conference organised by the Centre for Metropolitan History and supported by the Economic and Social Research Council, 7 July ...
Dyer, Christopher
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Beyond National Currency: The Plurality of Early Modern Money
History Compass, Volume 24, Issue 1, February 2026.ABSTRACT Diversity in money leaps at historians of early modern societies, whether they analyse account books, legal documents, travelogues and diaries, or try to make sense of a sum casually mentioned in a source from the period. The plurality of money objects contrasts with the homogeneous, singular currencies imposed by nation‐states in the 19th and
Sebastian Felten
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What Lessons for Economic Development Can We Draw from the Champagne Fairs? [PDF]
The medieval Champagne fairs are widely used to draw lessons about the institutional basis for long-distance impersonal exchange. This paper re-examines the causes of the outstanding success of the Champagne fairs in mediating international trade, the ...
Jeremy Edwards, Sheilagh Ogilvie
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 6-24, February 2026.Abstract The so‐called Liber Iesus, a Latin prayer book commissioned for the young Massimiliano Sforza by his father Ludovico il Moro in the 1490s, features a splendid miniature depicting a meeting between the child count and Emperor Maximilian I. It is accompanied by a brief dialogue in German with an interlinear version in Italian on the topic of the
Michael Berger
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Governance of Diversity Between Social Dynamics and Conflicts in Multicultural Cities. A Selected Survey on Historical Bibliography [PDF]
This paper is an excursus on multiculturalism from a historical perspective. It ranges from the encounters of different cultures in ancient times, through the Middle Ages, the Reformation and Counter-Reformation period up to the present times.
Ercole Sori, Renato Sansa
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The amazing synchronicity of the Global Development (the 1300s-1450s). An institutional approach to the globalization of the late Middle Ages [PDF]
, 2010 In a new approach to a long-ranging debate on the causes of the Late Medieval Debasement, we offer an institutional case-study of Russia and the Levant.
Badalian, Lucy, Krivorotov, Victor
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Early Medieval World (Chapter 2 of World History, A Short, Visual Introduction)
, 2015 The fifth through the tenth centuries was a period of significant transformation for Europe. As a result of the Germanic invasions and the collapse of the economy, the last Roman Emperor in the West, Romulus Augustulus (475-76), was deposed in 476.
Corning, Caitlin
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Institute of Historical Research Newsletter, Spring Term 2006 [PDF]
, 2006 The IHR produces a termly newsletter, which gives details of seminars and conferences and other historical news.
Institute of Historical Research
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