Interested in early modern merchants, 18th century letters, the materiality of a business archive, Atlantic trade, France, Hamburg, maritime neutrality, the Prize Papers or microhistory? My book was republished last month by @transcriptweb in Open Access. #history#histodons@histodons#maritimehistory#merchants#letters@historikerinnen
Episode 2 of A History of Capitalism is now live! In this week's episode, we talk about pre-modern trade. Trade across three continents was not an easy task. In this episode we meet the merchants and markets who made goods move through the eyes of Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta.
A typical record keeping practice of the High Court of Admiralty in London was to bundle together pieces of evidence taken from captured ships. These court bundles often included various sorts of records such as letters, administrative papers, and books. Strings, belts or ribbons kept the records together.
I am now going to #Leipzig to visit our exhibition, which will be officially opened on 1 September: Fairs, cities and merchants (1350-1600)
Come and join us in the Leipzig city #museum Old town hall, 1 September - 15 October 2023
#OSFest2023 is coming up... participate as a sponsor, merchant, exhibitor, performer, host/hostess, greeter, organizer, photographer, videographer, promoter, or as an attendee! Last year we had 800 unique visitors from 158 HG-enabled grids. It's your fest, make it fun, make it bigger, make it better! Most communication happens in Discord. Join us! discord.gg/8RtXqpS7cT
I was initially skeptical of this story, but it proved to be real! At some point (around 18 - early 19 century) in #Ukraine, artists painted #Orthodox#icons on... dried #fish !
How come? TLDR: these icons were used a sort of a very special professional #protective#charm by a particular type of traveling #merchants. For a bit more details (and illustrations), see the thread below 👇