Change and Transformation of Premodern Credit Markets. The importance of small-scale credits

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Change and Transformation of Premodern Credit Markets. The importance of small-scale credits

Veranstalter
Stephan Köhler, Universität Mannheim; Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften
Veranstaltungsort
Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften
Ort
Heidelberg
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
28.10.2019 - 30.10.2019
Deadline
21.10.2019
Website
http://hi.uni-mannheim.de/kleinkredite/
Von
Köhler, Stephan

This interdisciplinary conference focuses on the development of credit markets to mobilize large amounts of capital in the medieval and early modern period. Although the existence of premodern capital markets in Europe is nowadays an undisputed fact, there is little empirical knowledge about the functioning of these medieval and early modern credit markets.
Economic theories are capable of explaining economic trends for example, why certain forms of credit or credit intermediaries prevailed against competing alternatives in premodern markets. However, even the most sophisticated models have limited scope to take account of market functioning if relevant data is missing. Small-scale credits and informal credits are quite difficult to identify in the sources except for micro-historical studies. However, the financial dealings of artisans, peasants and townsmen actually represent the credit transactions of nearly the entire historical population and therefore can`t be neglected. An investigation about the development of capital markets should therefore take into account both historical and economic considerations.
The questions we set out to answer during our conference are the following: To what extent did informal credit institutions spread across Europe and how did they provide access to credit for the majority of the population? Of special importance are the following thematic strands:
1.) Which financial needs did individuals in premodern (medieval and early modern period) markets have and how did they cope with financial difficulties?
2.) Instead of searching in the medieval period for the precedents for modern economic institutions, the focus should be shifted to institutions and actors, which either do not exist or are not directly connected to financial service anymore.
3.) Of special interest are the low finance and the understanding of the use of everyday credit and how the majority of the population actually made a living.

Interested scholars are cordially invited. If you wish to attend this conference, please register by 21 October 2019 at: stephan.koehler@uni-mannheim.de

Programm

Day 1

13:00 Registration and opening remarks:
Schallum Werner (Heidelberg), Stephan Köhler (Mannheim)

13:45 Keynote speech:
Gilles Postel-Vinay (Paris)

14:20
Section 1: The functionality of pre-modern credit markets: an economic and social reappraisal
Chair: Ulla Kypta (Basel)

Matthew Stevens (Swansea), Colonization and credit in medieval Wales

Gabriela Signori (Konstanz), Small loans in late medieval urban economics

Sven Rabeler (Kiel), Small credit in a small town. Clerical institutions and the credit market in Kaufbeuren in the fifteenth century.

16:10 Coffee break

16:40
Section 2: A spatial analysis of small-scale credit: urban and rural environments compared
Chair: Daniel Smail (Harvard)

Stephan Köhler (Mannheim), Rural and urban credit in medieval Tyrol

So Nakaya (Osaka), Small loans to rural men in late medieval Tuscany

Benjamin Hitz (Basel), What can court records show us about medieval credit networks? The case of 15th-century Basel

18:30 End of Day 1.

Day 2

10:00
Section 3: The materiality of credit and economic data
Chair: Jochen Streb (Mannheim)

Tony Moore (Reading), Reconstructing credit in medieval London from statute recognisance rolls

David Chilosi (Groningen), Comparing inter-urban transaction costs: capital and wheat markets north and south of the Alps, 1350-1800

Philipp Roessner (Manchester), Credit, velocity and monetary regulation as state capacity and state formation: The example of the early Saxon Thaler/Dollar, 1490s-1530s

11:50 Lunch Buffet

14:00
Section 4: Practices of small-scale credit and the evolution of banking
Chair: Hiram Kümper (Mannheim)

Marcella Lorenzini (Milan), The other side of banking: lending systems in early modern Italy (17th-18th cc.)

Pierre-David Kuzman (Brussel), High finance, banking and small-scale moneylending: a new trinity of financial
functions for Lombards in the late-medieval Low Countries ?

Christian Hagen (Kiel), Short and long term transformations of urban credit markets. Christian and jewish creditors and debtors in late medieval Vienna

15:50 Coffee break

16:20
Section 5: Escaping Poverty? The importance of small-scale credit in pre-modern Europe
Chair: Ulf-Christian Ewert (Münster)

Hanah Robb (Manchester), Trust and contract in the fifteenth-Century

Mauro Carboni (Bologna), Lending to the working poor: the rise of public pawn banks in early modern Italy

Tanja Skambraks (Mannheim), Strategies of survival: pawnbroking and credit relations in early modern Rome

18:10 End of Day 2.

Day 3

09:30
Final discussion
Chair: Annette Kehnel (Mannheim)

Kontakt

Stephan Köhler

Universität Mannheim, Historisches Institut
Lehrstuhl für Mittelalterliche Geschichte
(+49) 0621-181-2253

stephan.koehler@uni-mannheim.de

http://hi.uni-mannheim.de/kleinkredite/