Before banks, nuns lent money. My latest article for #TheConversation looks at how convents became central players in Vienna’s late medieval financial system. Grab a cuppa and enjoy the read! 🔗 theconversation.com/before-banks... Generously funded by #TheLeverhulmeTrust
Before banks, nuns lent money: how convents helped power medieval Vienna’s economy
Convent lending formed part of the everyday functioning of Vienna’s economy in the 15th century.
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I’m very pleased to share that my first academic article has been published on Early View of the Economic History Review: doi.org/10.1111/ehr.... Many thanks to the journal editor and the reviewers for their constructive feedback. @echistsoc.bsky.social
<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online Library
During the high and late Middle Ages, the European economy witnessed the emergence and substantial growth of capital markets, a phenomenon connected to urbanization and pestilence, both of which brou...
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Delighted that some of my recent PhD research has just been published in Historical Research! It explores connections between the chronicle written at Burton Abbey in the mid-C13 and the royal chancery More here: academic.oup.com/histres/adva...
Documents of revolution and reform: Henry of Marchington, the king’s chancery and the chronicle of Burton*
Abstract. This article aims to demonstrate that much of the information found in the chronicle of Burton for the 1250s was obtained through Henry of Marchi
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