Below is the programme for `State Finance: the European experience,
c. 1200-1800', an international conference to be held at the University of
Essex from the 5th to the 8th July 1995. The Workshop sessions organised
by the History Data Unit, ESRC Data Archive, will provide delegates with
an opportunity to gain hands-on experience with the European State Finance
Database created by Professor Richard Bonney and to take part in an
interactive session run by Professor Bonney.
To register for the conference please contact Dr Mark Ormrod, Department
of History, University of York, Heslington, York, YO1 5DD; Tel: 01904
432981.
STATE FINANCE: THE EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE, c. 1200-1800
AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX, COLCHESTER, UK
5-8 JULY 1995
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
WEDNESDAY 5 JULY
ARRIVALS
1.00 LUNCH
4.00 TEA
4.30-6.00 SEMINAR: EARLY MODERN BRITAIN: PERIPHERY AND CENTRE
Dr Tim Thornton (University of Huddersfield): 'The pattern of taxation in the
peripheral territories of the English crown, 1300-1700'
Dr Peter Cunich (University of Hong Kong): 'The Court of Augmentations and
State Finance in England, 1536-1547'
Dr Julian Goodare (University of Edinburgh): 'Thomas Foulis: banker to the
Scottish crown in the 1590s'
6.30 DINNER
8.00-9.30 SEMINAR: WAR AND FINANCE IN EARLY MODERN FRANCE
Dr Mark Greengrass (University of Sheffield): 'Bits of a jigsaw: finding
the patterns in French public finances in the Wars of Religion'
Dr Julian Swann (Birkbeck College, London): 'War and finance in Burgundy
under Louis XIV'
Dr T.J.A. Le Goff (York University, Ontario): 'How to finance an
eighteenth-century war'
THURSDAY 6 JULY
7.30-9.00 BREAKFAST
9.30-10.30 WORKSHOP (DATA ARCHIVE)
10.30 COFFEE
11.00-12.30 SEMINAR: THE GENESIS OF FISCALITY: MEDIEVAL HUNGARY AND SPAIN
Prof. Janos Barta and Prof. Gabor Barta (Kossuth Lajos University): 'The
finances of Bela III of Hungary'
Dr Eloisa Ramirez Vaquero and Dr Juan Carrasco (Public University of Navarre):
'Navarre's royal finances, 1250-1450'
Dr Manuel Sanchez Martinez (CSIC, Barcelona): 'The fiscal system of
fourteenth-century Catalonia'
12.30 LUNCH
2.00-2.30 PRESENTATION
Dr David Crook (Public Record Office): 'The tax records at the Public Record
Office, 1200-1700'
3.00 TEA
3.30-5.00 SEMINAR: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE
Joel Felix (CHEEF, Paris): 'The French budget, 1749-1774'
Dr Michael Kwass (University of Michigan): 'Figuring mentalities: universal
taxation and political culture in France, 1695-1789'
Dr Catherine Desbarats (McGill University): 'France in North America: the
net burden of empire during the first half of the eighteenth century'
6.00 DINNER
7.30-9.00 SEMINAR: THE LONGUE DUREE: ITALY AND THE NETHERLANDS
Prof. Carlo Capra (University of Milan): 'Land and property taxes in Italy,
c. sixteenth- eighteenth centuries'
Dr W. Fritschy (Free University of Amsterdam), Dr Edwin Horlings (University
of Utrecht) and Dr Leendert van der Ent (Institute for Dutch History,
The Hague): 'Long-term developments in public finance during the Dutch
Republic: some preliminary results'
FRIDAY 7 JULY
7.30-9.00 BREAKFAST
9.30-10.30 WORKSHOP (DATA ARCHIVE)
10.30 COFFEE
11.00-12.30 SEMINAR: SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND
Prof. Patrick O'Brien and Philip Hunt (Institute of Historical Research,
London): 'The transition to excise in English state finance, 1640-1688'
Dr M.J. Braddick (University of Sheffield): 'Taxing the people: the limits of
the possible in seventeenth-century England'
12.30 LUNCH
2.00-3.00 WORKSHOP (DATA ARCHIVE)
3.00 TEA
3.30-5.00 SEMINAR: THE BALTIC EXPERIENCE
Univ.-Prof. Werner Buchholz (University of Griefswald): 'The finances of the
duchy of Pomerania, 1532-1637'
Prof. Anna Filipczak-Kocur (University of Opole): 'The Lithuanian treasury
under the first two Vasas, 1587-1648'
Prof. Michel Komaszynski (University of Silesia): 'The revenue of the famous
Sobieskis' court: royal treasury in Poland in the seventeenth century'
5.00 TEA
5.30-7.00 SEMINAR: SPAIN AND THE SPANISH EMPIRE
Prof. Juan E. Gelabert (University of Calabria): 'The king's expenses: the
asientos of Philip III and IV of Spain, 1598-1665'
Prof. John Jay Te Paske (Duke University): 'The revelations of the Spanish
imperial ledgers, 1550-1810: the royal accounts as texts'
8.00 CONFERENCE DINNER
SATURDAY 8 JULY
7.30-9.00 BREAKFAST
9.00-10.30 SEMINAR: THE PLANTAGENET ORBIT: MEDIEVAL ENGLAND AND NORMANDY
Vincent David Moss (University College of Wales, Cardiff): 'The rise of the
fiscal state in Normandy'
Nick Barratt (King's College, London): 'English royal revenues in the early
thirteenth century'
Dr W.M. Ormrod (University of York): 'Inflation, deflation and the longue
duree: assessing the value of English state revenues, 1200-1500'
10.30 COFFEE
11.00-12.30 SEMINAR: REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE
Prof. Eugene White (Rutgers University): 'The French financial war of
attrition, 1789-1815'
Prof. D.M.G. Sutherland (University of Maryland, College Park): 'Finance
and the economy in France, 1780-1820'
12.30 LUNCH
DEPART