Posthumus fellow Dr Davide Cristoferi (Ghent University) is the editor of the recently published open access publication Socio-Economic Inequalities during the Conjuncture of the Fourteenth Century: Sources and Methods, Dynamics and Representations (Italy and Europe, c. 1270 – c. 1350). This volume, to which other Posthumus members from Ghent University, ULB, and the University of Antwerp have also contributed, is the result of the FWO-FNRS EI-MED project, led by Davide.
This volume aims to bring together, discuss and further develop the findings and perspectives of two relevant debates in medieval and economic history – the fourteenth-century conjuncture and pre-industrial inequality – through nineteen original and state-of-the-art contributions in English and Italian by established scholars and promising young researchers.
Focusing on Central-Northern Italy and Western Europe between c. 1270 and c. 1350, the volume aims to understand why, how and to what extent medieval society was unequal in the seventy years before the Great Plague of 1347-52, presenting a wide range of sources and methods, exploring and discussing the causal mechanisms of socio-economic inequalities, and examining how these differences were perceived, represented and dealt with in the late Middle Ages, extending the investigation in some cases to the post-Black Death period.
The publication is available online via the website of Firenze University Press.
Book presentation
This publication will be presented at a seminar at the Université Libre de Bruxelles on 23 October. Professor Mathieu Arnoux, director of studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and a senior member of the Institut universitaire de France, and Professor Tim Soens of the University of Antwerp will discuss the new publication with the editor of this volume, Davide Cristoferi.
Participation in this seminar is free of charge, but prior registration is requested via e-mail.
