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Trade and the Merchant Adventurer in the Late Middle Ages

“I saw oranges and lemons from Castile … fruits and wine from Greece … I saw also confections and spices from Alexandria, and all the Levant, just as if one were there”. (Pero Tafur on a visit to Bruges in 1438)

This course will look at patterns of trade, systems of finance, the great commercial centres of Europe and the role of the merchant as well as the impact of trade on cultural and artistic traditions in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Tuesday 29 January 2008
 
10.30 am
Travellers and Travelling in the Later Middle Ages
Dr. Catherine Reynolds, Visiting Fellow of Reading University and Consultant to Christie’s
 
12.00 noon
The Financing of Trade
Peter Spufford, Emeritus Professor of European History, University of Cambridge
 
1.00 pm
Lunch
 
2.00 pm
Venice and the East
Dr Paula Nuttall, Course Tutor, Victoria & Albert Museum
Tuesday 5 February 2008
 
10.30 am
Bruges: “The meeting place of all the world”
Dr Paula Nuttall, Course Tutor, Victoria & Albert Museum
 
12.00 noon
Wool, Cloth, Gold and Silver
Professor Jim Bolton, History Department, Queen Mary University of London
 
1.00 pm
Lunch
 
2.00 pm
Books by the Barrelful
Dr. Catherine Reynolds, Visiting Fellow of Reading University and Consultant to Christie’s
Tuesday 12 February 2008
 
10.30 am
England and the Hanse
Dr. Stuart Jenks, University of Erlangen
 
12.00 noon
Marketing Medieval Silks
Lisa Monnas
 
1.00 pm
Lunch
 
2.00 pm
“The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls”: Netherlandish Tapestries in England in the Fifteenth Century
Dr. Scot McKendrick, Head of Western Manuscripts, British Library
Tuesday 19 February 2008
 
10.30 am
Grocers, Apothecaries and the Painters’ World
Jo Kirby, Scientific Department, The National Gallery
 
12.00 noon
Exporting Alabasters
Dr. Catherine Oakes, Director of Studies in Art History, University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education
 
1.00 pm
Lunch
 
2.00 pm
“A Far Adventure”: England’s Commercial Contacts in the Middle Ages.
Professor Wendy R. Childs, University of Leeds

The cost of the full course is £236. The cost of the morning lectures only (lunch not included) is £136. The lectures will take place at The Medical Society of London,
Lettsom House, 11 Chandos Street, Cavendish Square, London W1. Each day will begin at 10.30am and finish at about 3.30pm.

To apply, please contact us.

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