XLV Study Week

SCHIAVITÙ E SERVAGGIO NELL'ECONOMIA EUROPEA SECC. XI-XVIII • SERFDOM AND SLAVERY IN THE EUROPEAN ECONOMY 11TH-18TH CENTURIES

Prato, April 14th to 18th 2013

L'affrancamento di uno schiavo, Iustinianus Augustus
L'affrancamento di uno schiavo, Iustinianus Augustus [imperatore d'Oriente], Digestum novum seu Pandectorum libri cum commento Accursii, miniatore francese, sec. XIV, ms. S. IV.4, c. 33v
© Cesena, Biblioteca Malatestiana



PROGRAMME

Sunday, 14th April

18.00, Sala Maggiore del Palazzo Comunale
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REGARDS:
Roberto CENNI Mayor of Prato
Alberto TESI Rector of the University of Florence

INAUGURAL SPEECH
Sergej PAVLOVIC KARPOV (Mosca)



Monday, 15th April

Il servaggio e il sistema istituzionale / Serfdom and the Institutional System

Aula Magna - Polo Universitario Pratese (PIN)
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09.00

Papers

Christopher BRIGGS (Cambridge, UK), English serfdom, c.1200-c.1350: towards an institutionalist analysis
Sheilagh OGILVIE (Cambridge, UK), Serfdom and the Institutional System in Early Modern Germany
Alexander KLEIN (Kent), The Institutions of the 'Second Serfdom' and Economic Efficiency: Review of the Existing Evidence for Bohemia
Tracy DENNISON (California Institute of Technology, USA), The Institutional Framework of Serfdom in Russia: the View from 1861

Le condizioni della scomparsa, sopravvivenza o rinascita del servaggio / The conditions of disappearance, survival or revival of serfdom

Aula Magna - Polo Universitario Pratese (PIN)
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15.00

Papers

Francesco PANERO (Torino), Il nuovo servaggio dei secoli XII-XIV in Italia: ricerche socio-economiche e comparazioni con alcune regioni dell'Europa mediterranea
Michael NORTH (Greifswald), Serfdom and corvée labour in the Baltic Area 16th-18th centuries

Communications

Lluís TO FIGUERAS, Pere ORTI GOST (Girona), Servidumbre y niveles de vida del campesinado catalán antes y después de la Peste Negra de 1348
Rosa LLUCH-BRAMON (Barcelona), Remences pauvres, remences riches: les inégalités économiques (Vieille Catalogne, XIV-XVI)
Silvia CORLATEANU-GRANCIUC (Acc. Scienze Moldovia), Le specificità della schiavitù medioevale in Moldova nei secoli XV-XVII, nel contesto della servitù in area rumena


Aula Magna - Polo Universitario Pratese (PIN)
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18.00
Scientific Committee meeting



Tuesday, 16th April

La diffusione del servaggio e il consolidamento dell'economia dei regimi signorili in Europa orientale / The spread of serfdom and the strengthening of the economy of the seigniorial regimes in Eastern Europe

Aula Magna - Polo Universitario Pratese (PIN)
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09.00

Papers

Markus CERMAN (Wien), Seigniorial systems in East-central and Eastern Europe, 1300-1800: regional realities
Piotr GUZOWSKI (Bialystok), The role of enforced labour in the economic development of church and royal estates in 15th and 16th-century Poland
Alessandro STANZIANI (EHESS), Serfs, slaves or Indentured People? Forms of Bondage in Russia and Central Asia, from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century
Antal SZÁNTAY (Budapest), Serfdom in 18th century Hungary

Communications

Carsten PORSKROG RASMUSSEN (Aarhus, DK), Forms of Serfdom and Bondage in the Danish Monarchy
Marten SEPPEL (Tartu), The Growth of the State and its Consequences on the Structure of Serfdom in the Baltic Provinces, 1550-1750

La schiavitù in Europa dal Medioevo al XVIII secolo / The slavery in Europe from the Middle Ages until the 18th century

Aula Magna - Polo Universitario Pratese (PIN)
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15.00

Papers

Salvatore BONO (Perugia), Schiavi in Europa nell'età moderna : diversità di forme e di aspetti
Jeffrey FYNN-PAUL (Leiden) Reasons for the Limited Scope and Duration of 'Renaissance Slavery' in Southern Europe (ca. 1348-ca. 1750): A New Structuralist Analysis

Communications

Anti SELART (Tartu - Estonia), Slavery in the Eastern Baltic in the 12th-15th centuries
Juliane SCHIEL (Zurigo), Die Sklaven und die Pest. Überlegungen zur Bedeutung der Pest für die Haussklaverei in Venedig
Francesco GUIDI BRUSCOLI (Firenze), Bartolomeo Marchionni e il commercio degli schiavi africani nel mondo mediterraneo a fine Quattrocento
Flocel SABATÉ (Leida), Los esclavos ante la justicia en la Cataluña Bajomedieval


Aula Magna - Polo Universitario Pratese (PIN)
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17.30
Reunion of the Giunta of the scientific Committee


Wednesday, 17th April

La schiavitù in Europa dal Medioevo al XVIII secolo / The slavery in Europe from the Middle Ages until the 18th century

Aula Magna - Polo Universitario Pratese (PIN)
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09.00

Papers

Aurelia MARTÍN CASARES (Granada/Londra), Evolution of the origin of slaves sold in Spain from the Late Middle Ages till the 18th century
Raúl GONZÁLEZ ARÉVALO (Granada), Ordenanzas municipales y trabajo esclavo en la Corona de Castilla (Siglos XV-XVI)
Judith SPICKSLEY (York), The decline of slavery for debt in Western Europe in the medieval period
Filipa RIBEIRO DA SILVA (Amsterdam), Slave Trade into mid-eighteenth century South-western Europe: an insight from the import of "Negroes from India, Cacheo, Angola and Brazil" into Lisbon

Communications

Magnus RESSEL (Bochum), Protestant Slaves in Northern Africa during the Early Modern Age
Anne BROGINI (Nice), Au coeur de l'esclavage méditerranéen : Malte aux XVIe-XVIIe siècles
Joachim ÖSTLUND (Lund), The Swedish involvement in the trans-Mediterranean slave trade during the 18th century

La tratta degli schiavi / The slave trade

Aula Magna - Polo Universitario Pratese (PIN)
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15.00

Papers

Kenneth MORGAN (London), The flows of the slave trade: national flags, African region of departure, and American region of arrival, 1501-1867
Dienke HONDIUS (Amsterdam), Amsterdam, Middelburg and The Hague in the history of slavery and the slave trade
Matthias VAN ROSSUM (Amsterdam), The dynamics of private trade in slaves in Asia. Private ownership and trade of slaves by servants of the Dutch East India Company (VOC)
Karwan FATAH-BLACK (Leiden), A network to encourage the Slave Trade? Paramaribo-Middelburg-Amsterdam, 1783-1793

Communications

Iván ARMENTEROS MARTÍNEZ (Barcelona), Hacia el Mediterráneo Atlántico. La participación catalana en el primer tráfico atlántico de esclavos (finales del siglo XV – principios del XVI)
Klemen PUST (Koper, Capodistria), Slave trade and ransom slavery on the "Triplex Confinium" in the 16th century
Nuala ZAHEDIEH (Edinburgh), Monopoly and free trade. Changes in the organization of the British slave trade, 1660-1720


Thursday, 18th April

La tratta degli schiavi / The slave trade

Aula Magna - Polo Universitario Pratese (PIN)
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09.00

Roundtable

Markus CERMAN (Wien)
Yusuf HAKAN ERDEM (Istambul)
Sergej PAVLOVIC KARPOV (Mosca)
Paolo MALANIMA (Napoli)
Sheilagh OGILVIE (Cambridge)

10.30

Maria Grazia GIAMMARINARO (Rappresentante Speciale OSCE e Coordinatrice per la Lotta alla tratta di esseri umani), Il Traffico di essei umani nell'Europa contemporanea: caratteristiche del fenomeno e azioni di contrasto e protezione delle vittime

[During all the conference, with the exclusion of the inaugural session, it's available the simultaneous translation in Italian and English]


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