Friday, April 29
2:30 pm
Welcome / Introduction
Nils Bock
University of Münster and Harvard University
3:00 pm
Panel One: Everyday Economies: The Role of Individual Actors in Making Premodern Money (Part 1)
Panelists
Credit Networks in a Late Medieval Commercial Giant: The Case of Ypres
Martha Howell
Columbia University
Of Ports, Peasants, and Money: The Archaeology of Specialist and Mercantile Agency in the Economic Development of Western Europe, c. AD 650-1150
Christopher Loveluck
University of Nottingham and Harvard University
Moderator
Maryanne Kowaleski
Fordham University and the Radcliffe Institute
4:30 pm
Coffee Break
5:00 pm
Panel One: Everyday Economies: The Role of Individual Actors in Making Premodern Money (Part 2)
Panelist
Of Private, Public Agents: Modern Categories, Premodern Economies, and Enduring Anachronisms
Thomas Max Safley
University of Pennsylvania
Moderator
Maryanne Kowaleski
5:45 pm
Panel Two: State Economies: The Role of Public Actors in Making Premodern Money (Part 1)
Panelist
Templars and Lombards as Public Actors in Medieval France (12th to 14th Century): A Contribution to the History of Money and Capital
Nils Bock
Moderator
Maryanne Kowaleski
Saturday, April 30
9:00 am
Panel Two: State Economies: The Role of Public Actors in Making Premodern Money (Part 2)
Panelists
Policy Maker, Money Lender, and Product Consumer: The Northern Song State During China's "Medieval Economic Revolution"
Ling Zhang
Boston College
Commodious or Commodity? Unminted Silver Money in Ming China (1368-1644)
Bruce Rusk
University of British Columbia
10:30 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am
Panel Three: Market Economies: The Role of Commercial and Financial Actors in Making Premodern Money
Panelists
Notes for the History of Money and Credit in the Medieval Mediterranean: The Case of the Geniza Merchants
Jessica Goldberg
University of California, Los Angeles
Anomaly and Florentine Wages at the Time of the Black Death
William Caferro
Vanderbilt University
12:30 pm
Lunch Break
2:00 pm
Closing Remarks and Final Discussion
A Return of Economic History? New Approaches to the History of Late Medieval Europe
Martin Kintzinger
University of Münster