Nájera 11th International Meetings of the Middle Ages
Diplomacy, Trade and Navigation Between Medieval Cities of Atlantic Europe
Nájera, Spain
28-29 July, 2014
This Academic Meetings seek to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of all aspects of medieval studies. Each Congress has one particular special thematic strand on an area of interdisciplinary study in a wider context. Next summer the town council of Nájera will once again host the International Meetings of the Middle Ages, organised by the Medieval Research Group on Atlantic Cities of the University of Cantabria (http://atlanticports.unican.es) and supported by the Autonomous Government of La Rioja.
The topic of this year is about: Diplomacy, trade and navigation between medieval cities of Atlantic Europe.
We will focus on:
- Diplomacy between cities
- Cities and commercial Exchange
- Commercial networks and organisation
- Navigation in later middle ages
- Connectivity across Atlantic Europe
- Cultural Exchange
Historians and Graduate students are encouraged to submit abstracts for research presentations on topics related to “Diplomacy, trade and navigation between medieval cities of Atlantic Europe”. Abstracts should be no more than 500 characters and should clearly state the purpose, thesis, methodology, and principal findings of the paper to be presented. Successful proposals will be published in 2015.
All abstracts and a short CV (in English or Spanish) should be submitted electronically (either as a MS Word document or as text in the body of an e-mail) to Dr. Jesús A. Solórzano Telechea at: solorzaja@unican.es
The deadline for submissions will be May 31, 2014.
The languages of the meetings are Spanish, English, French, German, Dutch, Italian and Portuguese.
