The Hungarian Historical Review invites submissions for its first issue in 2017, the theme of which will be “Commercial exchange in Central Europe between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries”

The deadline for the submission of abstracts: March 15
The deadline for the accepted papers: June 15

 
The pace of commerce in Medieval Europe began to accelerate rapidly in the thirteenth century. The increasing volume of commerce exerted a decisive influence on commercial networks and institutions, and indeed on the very nature of commerce itself. Scholarship on the history of commerce has always dealt with these questions. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the medieval economic system underwent a major transformation, which affected the volume, nature, forms and organization of commerce. We therefore invite papers for this special issue on commercial networks related to Central Europe, with a focus on the period between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries. Issues can be examined from the perspectives of merchants, purchasers, commercial institutions, or the goods exchanged, but we also encourage inquiries into the various channels through which commercial activity flowed. Methods used in the study of history, archaeology and art history are all welcome in the discussion of any given topic that forms part of this conceptual framework.

The aim of the special issue is to investigate
- the participants in commercial networks (merchants and tradespeople, merchant associations and merchants guilds);

- the channels that facilitated commercial relationships;

- the institutional frameworks of commercial relations (laws, local rules, limitations on trading, tolls);

- trade institutions;

- the flow of information;

- foreign goods marketed in the Carpathian Basin;

- Hungarian goods sold on foreign markets;

- non-commercial factors that influenced commercial relationships (factors facilitating or obstructing trade, such as features of the natural environment, road networks, infrastructural requirements, etc.)

 
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Please send an abstract of no more than 500 words and a short biographical sketch, together with a brief biography and selected list of three publications (we do not accept CVs).

The deadline for the submission of abstracts: March 15

Proposals should be submitted to the organizers by email:

meh@btk.mta.hu and hunghist@btk.mta.hu

Boglárka Weisz and Tamás Pálosfalvi will serve as special editors of the issue.

The editors will ask the authors of selected papers to submit their final articles (max. 10.000 words) no later than June 15. The articles will be published after a peer-review process. All articles must conform to our submission guidelines: http://hunghist.org/index.php/forauthors

The Hungarian Historical Review is a peer-reviewed international journal of the social sciences and humanities the geographical focus of which is Hungary and East Central Europe. For additional information, including submission guidelines, please visit the journal’s website: http://www.hunghist.org

The Hungarian Historical Review

Published quarterly by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Research Centre for the Humanities

Institute of History

30 Országház utca, Budapest H – 1014, Hungary

Email: hunghist@btk.mta.hu

Website: http://hunghist.org