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Dear colleagues, last week, we had a great International Medieval Congress 2024 with two marvellous GIRO-sponsored sessions, one on positive economic effects of the Black Death and one on prices in times of crises. Those of you who could not attend in person (but have registered for the IMC) are still able and invited to listen to our speakers online using the following links: Positives of Plague: https://imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2024/prelim.cgi/Session/5259 Prices and Crises: https://imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2024/prelim.cgi/Session/4950 Best wishes from Vienna, Lienhard (Thaler)

Here is the detailed timetable for the seminar:   9.30am - 9.35am Introduction   9.35am - 10.35am Presentation of papers followed by discussion:   Judit Gál (Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of History, Budapest): 'Serbian Economic Privileges to Dalmatian Towns during the 13th and 14th Centuries.'   Kádas István (Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of History, Hungary): 'Tax Collection in the ‘Field’ in the Late Medieval Hungarian Kingdom'   Boglarka Weisz: The Financial Reforms of Charles I of Hungary'.   10.35am - 10.45am Short Break   10.45am - 11am Brief Updates:   Marco Conti: The Papal Legate Bertrando del Poggetto and the Italian Cities   Richard Cassidy: Approaching the Thirteenth Century Pipe Rolls   11am - 11.30am General Discussion including:   Forthcoming Conferences and Publications   Topics for future Medieval Finance Network Seminars To get the Teams link please send a message to the webmaster

The Datini Institute announced the theme for its 2025 study week: Risk Management, Insolvency, and Bankruptcy in the Pre-Modern World (13th-18th Centuries). For more information, please follow this link: https://www.istitutodatini.it/temi/eng/call.htm Deadline for applications: 1 November 2023.