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- Title
Wirtschaftssanktionen im 13. Jahrhundert: Narrationen, Praktiken, Perspektiven.
- Authors
Berger, Maximiliane
- Abstract
The history of medieval economic sanctions is currently both known and unknown. Many instances of their deployment have been acknowledged or analysed in the context of the conflicts they were part of, like the 1205/1206 blockade of the Rhine as an element in the struggle between Philipp of Swabia and Otto of Brunswick. On the other hand, research in Medieval Studies that puts economic sanctions centre stage is still an emerging field. This paper argues that a broader investigation of episodes of economic sanctioning in the narrative sources is a sensible next step to develop this field, since it would bring the triple advantages of expanding its current geographical and prosopographical scope beyond the ecclesiastic Mediterranean (1), of putting its currently prevailing focus on normative texts into context (2), and of obviating the more unnecessary pessimisms currently characterising evaluations of medieval economic sanctions (3). To show the potential of narrated medieval sanctions episodes to inform our understanding of economic thinking around medieval economic sanctions, three examples from 13th-century historiography are analysed: the above-mentioned blockade of the Rhine, a smugglers' tale in Matthew Paris's 'Cronica Majora' against the backdrop of papal embargo legislation, and Salimbene of Parma's report on third-party participation in a Venetian blockade of the river Po.
- Subjects
PARMA (Italy); ECONOMIC sanctions; PESSIMISM; ECONOMIC history; EMBARGO; BLOCKADE
- Publication
Frühmittelalterliche Studien, 2023, Vol 57, Issue 1, p103
- ISSN
0071-9706
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/fmst-2023-0005