Thursday, 21st June 2018
14:00-14:15
ULLA KYPTA (Basel) welcoming remarks
Everyone’s a market actor?
14:15-15:00
FRANZISKA QUAAS (Hamburg): Towards a Different Type of Market Exchange in the Early Middle Ages. The Sacrum Commercium and its Agents
15:00-15:30 coffee break
Public institutions
15:30-16:15
EVA TREIN NIELSEN (Copenhagen): Facilitating Trade in Scandinavia in the 12-14th Centuries – Mutual Trust created through Control and Regulations to the Benefit of All
16:15-17:00
FRANZISKA NEUMANN (Rostock): Hybrid Bureaucracy. The Mining Administration as Market Agent in the 16th Century
17:00-17:30 coffee break
Merchants
17:30-18:15
MARIA CIEŚLA (Warsaw): Jewish Merchants and their Partners in Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Key note lecture
18:30-20:00
OSCAR GELDERBLOM (Utrecht): Private Initiative – Public Benefit: The Rise of Amsterdam’s Financial Market in the Seventeenth Century
20:00 Apéro
Friday, 22nd June 2018
Brokers between buyers and sellers
08:30-09:15
MICHAEL ROTHMANN (Hannover): Gatekeepers of economic networks: Brokers in medieval textile markets
09:15-09:45 coffee break
09:45-10:30
MARCO TOMASZEWSKI (Freiburg/ Breisgau): Merchants, Brokers, 'Peasants' and the Market for Raw Linen in Early Modern St. Gall
Brokers between different markets
10:30-11:15
KLEMENS KAPS (Vienna): Agency and market power of a mediator between internal and international markets: The Greppi Marliani Company as commercial connector between the Habsburg dominions and Spanish colonial markets in the second half of the 18th century
11:15-11:45 coffee break
11:45-12:30
HEINRICH LANG (Bamberg): Secondary Markets for Profit from Bankruptcy: The Loans to the French Crown and the Florentine Bankers as Agents of Markets in the 16th century
12:30-13:00
MARIA ALEKSANDROVA (Moscow): concluding remarks
Please register until 11th June 2018: ulla.kypta@unibas.ch