We are happy to announce that a volume was published in conjunction with the international conference "Financial Aspects of the Medieval Economy," held at Charles University in Prague on 17-19 October 2013. Among the contributors we can find our member of faculty Balázs Nagy, our PhD student János Incze and our alumnus Antonín Kalous. The editor of the book Roman Zaoral was a junior research fellow at our department.
This book presents an original review of past and present research of national historiographies on medieval financial history from Central Europe. Covering material ranging from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, it explores the eastern regions of the Holy Roman Empire, including Bohemia, Silesia, Austria and Germany, and extending to Poland and Hungary. The authors firstly discuss the monetary policy of the Holy Roman emperors during the Middle Ages, before moving on to wider aspects of state finance, including credit mechanisms used by rulers. The book then investigates civic records and what they reveal about urban life and trade. It lastly investigates the financial activities of the church, from papacy to the cathedral chapters in Prague.