FULL DESCRIPTION

The Economy and the State in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries: Cooperation, Competition, Interdependence

Friday, March 28th
at Deutsches Haus (420 W. 116th Street) Columbia University

8:45 am Registration and coffee

9:00 am – 12:00 pm

Peter Stabel, University of Antwerp, Centre for Urban History: “Civic identity, economic regulation and subsidiary authority. A demand oriented approach of government in late medieval cities”
Comment: Julia Adams, Yale University

Jan Dumolyn, University of Ghent: “The Economic discourse of the Flemish burghers in the later Middle Ages”
Comment: Carl Wennerlind, Barnard College

Marjolein ‘t Hart, University of Amsterdam: “How war and urban autonomy forged a long-lasting, profitable relationship”
Comment: Peter Arnade, San Marcos State University

12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Lunch Break

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Maarten Prak, University of Utrecht: "The Market for Architecture in Holland, 1500-1815"
Comment: John Shovlin, New York University Christopher Ebert, Brooklyn College: “Insurance and inter-imperial merchant organization in the early Atlantic economy and its institutional context”
Comment: Marc Boone, University of Ghent

4:00 pm – 4:30 pm Coffee Break

4:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Hal Cook, University College, London and the Welcome Institute, London (visiting Queen Wilhelmina Professor, Columbia University): “The Political economy of commerce and the rise of scientific materialism'’
Comment: Steven Pincus, Yale University

5:30 pm – 6:00 pm Discussion moderated by Martha Howell, Columbia University

6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Reception

Please register by contacting Ariel Rubin at ajr2112@columbia.edu. There is no registration fee, but the papers will be circulated to all registered participants. The Columbia history department wishes to thank the Nederlandse Taalunie and Deutsches Haus for their support. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------