Joint Research Project CEU, Budapest & Edinburgh University Medieval Studies- Economic History Medieval Central Europe A New Economic and Social History Research funding graciously provided by the British Academy and the Hungarian Academic Research Fund (OTKA) Contributors

A new research initiative was launched at Edinburgh University in 1995 concerning patterns of economic development in Medieval and Early Modern European economic development. In the next year, following a presentation concerning European economic development, 450-1340 AD, research was undertaken on developments in the late Middle Ages 1340-1540 AD when Central-, South-eastern Europe played a central role in the process of economic change. The preliminary ideas on this latter theme have been presented during the autumn semester 1997 at Budapest and a research seminar was held at Warsaw on the 24-25th October of that year to discuss these ideas. On the basis of subsequent discussions with the Austrian, Hungarian and Croat colleagues above, a research group was formed in May 2000 with the objective of writing a new economic and social history of medieval Central-, South-eastern Europe. It was agreed, that the initial focus should be on Medieval Hungary and that

Ian Blanchard (University of Edinburgh) and Balázs Nagy with the contribution of József Laszlovszky and Erich Landsteiner (University of Vienna)

would be organized preparatory to the writing of a new economic and social history of medieval Hungary. It was also decided that onging post-graduate research undertaken at the Department of Medieval Studies at the CEU, Budapest on topics associated with the project should be displayed when appropriate to a wider audience at the session sponsored by the department at the

International Medieval Congress

held at the University of Leeds each year. Papers by members of the project or others working with it will on occasion be given at conferences and made available on this site:

Segregation, Integration and Assimilation in Medieval Towns

held at CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY, BUDAPEST, 20-22 FEBRUARY 2003

With the generous financial support of the Hungarian Academic Research Fund (OTKA) we were able to bring the initial phase, of hypothesis formulation, to a close in 2005 and commence on a new phase of detailed research concerning the economic and social history of medieval Hungary. The opening of this new phase in the project's evolution has been marked by a one-day conference held at the CEU, Budapest on 25th November 2005.

Medieval Economic History of Hungary as reflected
by archaeology and material culture

It was agreed at this conference that a supplementary meeting would be held in May 2006 to bring in additional participants and that a workshop presenting the work of the group and organising publication would be conducted in January 2007. On the basis of decisions made at this latter workshop, two books are currently in preparation, the first an undergraduate and masters' level textbook on the economic history of medieval Hungary, the second a research monograph on the economic history of medieval Hungary. Both will be initially published in Hungarian but it is hoped to translate both into English. Details of these works are provided under "Publications"below

Publications of project

It was also agreed to prepare presentations of the work of the unit, which it hoped will be given at the IMC Leeds in 2008 and at the XV WEHC, Utrecht in 2009

Ian Blanchard

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