Professor John Munro passed away on December 23, 2013. This site is maintained and kept online as an archive. For more infomation please visit the Centre for Medieval Studies
Professor (Emeritus) John H. Munro passed away December 23, 2013
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Updated on: 22 July 2013:
(1) The Usury Doctrine and Urban Public Finances in Late-Medieval Flanders (1220-1550): Rentes (Annuities), Excise Taxes, and Income Transfers from the Poor to the Rich .
Paper presented to the following organizations:
John Munro, 'The Usury Doctrine and Urban Public Finances in Late-Medieval Flanders (1220 - 1550): Rentes (Annuities), Excise Taxes, and Income Transfers from the Poor to the Rich', in Simonetta Cavaciocchi, ed., La fiscalità nell'economia Europea, secoli XIII - XVIII/ Fiscal Systems in the European Economy from the 13th to the 18th Centuries, Atti della ‘Trentanovesima Settimana di Studi', 22 - 26 aprile 2007, Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica ‘F. Datini', Prato, Serie II: Atti delle ‘Settimane de Studi' e altri Convegni no. 39 (Florence: Firenze University Press, 2008), pp. 973-1026.
This publication is also available online as a PDF file offprint
(2) The South Sea Bubble of 1720 and its relationship to the current financial crisis: an old and still current story of greed, fraud, and stupidity:
For the series Breakfast with the Bulletin, on Market Meltdown, Economic Uncertainty, in the Bennett Lecture Hall, Flavelle House, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, 78 Queen’s Park Crescent, Toronto: on Tuesday, 25 November 2008.
(3) Coinage Debasements in Burgundian Flanders, 1384 - 1482: Monetary or Fiscal Policies?
John Munro, 'Coinage Debasements in Burgundian Flanders, 1384 - 1482: Monetary or Fiscal Policies?, in David Nicholas, James Murray, and Bernard Bacharach, eds., Comparative Perspectives on History and Historians: Essays in Memory of Bryce Lyon (1920-2007), Medieval Institute Publications, University of Western Michigan (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute, 2012), pp. 314-60.
This publication is also available online as a PDF file offprint
(4) From Gutsherrschaft to Grundherrschaft: Monetary and Fiscal Factors in the Decline of English Manorial Demesne Agriculture and Serfdom, ca. 1370 - ca. 1420
John Munro, 'The Late-Medieval Decline of English Demesne Agriculture: Demographic, Monetary, and Political-Fiscal Factors', in Mark Bailey and Stephen Rigby, eds., Town and Countryside in the Age of the Black Death: Essays in Honour of John Hatcher, The Medieval Countryside, vol. 12 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2012), pp. 299-348.
(5) From Wine to Beer: Changing Patterns of Alcoholic Consumption and Living Standards in Later Medieval Flanders, 1300 - 1550
Presented to:
(a) The 85th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Session 25: ‘Food, Drink, Environment, and Crisis in Northern Europe’, at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, on 19 March 2010.
(b) The Department of History, Universiteit Antwerpen (Antwerp, Belgium): on 6 May 2010 (revised version).
(c) SWEAT: Summer Workshop in Economics and Applied Theory: Department of Economics, University of Toronto (Max Gluskin House): on Wednesday, 14 July 2010 (further revised version)
(6) Usury, Calvinism, and Credit in Protestant England: from the Sixteenth Century to the Industrial Revolution
John Munro, 'Usury, Calvinism and Credit in Protestant England: from the Sixteenth Century to the Industrial Revolution', in Francesco Ammannati, ed., Religione e istituzioni religiose nell'economia europea, 1000 - 1800/ Religion and Religious Institutions in the European Economy, 1000 - 1800, Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica ‘F. Datini', Prato, Serie II: Atti delle ‘Settimane de Studi' e altri Convegni no. 43 (Florence: Firenze University Press, 2012), pp. 155-84.
This publication is also available online as a PDF file offprint
(7) Usury and Medieval-Renaissance Public Debts: Why the Renaissance Italian Communes Did Not Adopt the Franco-Flemish ‘Financial Revolution', 1220 - 1600
(8) The Dual Crises of the Late-Medieval Florentine Cloth Industry, ca. 1320 - 1420
(9) Usury and Medieval Public Finance: Why the (Franco)Flemings and not the Italians Invented the Modern 'Financial Revolution':
(10) How Golden was the Burgundian 'Golden Age' in the Fifteenth Century? How financing warfare reduced the living standards of urban craftsmen
in the southern Low Countries:
(11) Woollens, Worsteds, and (Hybrid) Serges: English and Continental Terminologies for Wool-Based Textiles and Their Technological Significance (Medieval and Early-Modern Eras)
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