The online research seminar Economic History of Monarchy was established at the University of Oxford in February 2021 and ran until December 2024.
February/March 2021 – Hilary Term
1 February: Amalie Fößel (Duisburg-Essen): Marriage and Property. Some basic thoughts on the finances of medieval queens
15 February: Nico Dogaer (Leuven): Putting the king in his place: Reflections on the ‘royal monopolies’ in Hellenistic Egypt
1 March: Paul P.T. Bovend’ Eert (Radboud): The Royal Income: The Legalities of the Dutch Royal Finances in the 20th and 21st Centuries
May/June 2021 – Trinity Term
10 May: Ferdinand Eibl (London): Royal Inc. in Morocco
17 May: Christina Petterson (Australian National University): Colonies, companies, counts, and King. Money and nobility between the King and his colonies
7 June: Christa Birkel (Munich): Pledging and Politics. The Example of the Late Medieval Duchy of Luxembourg
14 June: Roundtable on Economic History of Monarchy with Luc Duerloo, George Tridimas, and Ellie Woodacre
October/November 2021 – Michaelmas Term
25 October: Sebastian Ottinger, Nico Voigtländer (UCLA): History’s Masters: The Effect of European Monarchs on State Performance
1 November: Lorenzo Bondioli (Columbia): The Fiscal-Commercial Complex: Taxation and Capital in Fatimid Egypt
29 November: Milinda Banerjee (St Andrews), Laura Clancy (Lancaster), Aaron Graham (Oxford), Ilya Afanasyev (Oxford): Roundtable on Political Economy and Monarchy
January/February 2022 – Hilary Term
24 January: Korinna Schönhärl (Paderborn): Financing a Newborn State under Precarious Conditions: King Otto I of Greece (1832-1862) and his Sources of Revenue and Credit
31 January: Andrew Hogan (Berkeley): Pharaohs and Finance: Considerations for the Introduction of a Monetized Sector to the Customary Economy in Ptolemaic Egypt
14 February: Jonathan Triffitt (St Andrews): Compensating the King: Royal Property and Finance after the German Revolution, 1918-1930
May/June 2022 – Trinity Term
Economic Resources of Royalty – in cooperation with Examining the Resources and Revenues of Royal Women in Premodern Europe
9 May: Inês Olaia (Lisbon): The Portuguese Crown’s Struggle to Provide for Early Sixteenth-Century Royal Women
Comment by Chloë McKenzie (London)
16 May: Katarzyna Kosior (Newcastle): Royal Inheritance and Dower Negotiations in a Parliamentary Monarchy: The Case of Anna Jagiellon, Queen of Poland-Lithuania
Comment by Charlotte Backerra (Göttingen)
30 May: Paula Del Val Vales (Lincoln): Reconstructing the Queen’s Personnel in the Thirteenth Century: Possibilities and Challenges
Comment by Cathleen Sarti (Oxford)
13 June: Roundtable on Economic Resources of Royal Men: The King’s Money: Contrasts, Comparisons, and Challenges of a Comparative Approach
José Eloy Hortal Muñoz (URJC Madrid), James Ross (Winchester), Jan Vojtíšek (Prague)
October 2022 – Michaelmas Term
17 October: Alexander Jendorff (Gießen): Kings of Paradise or Splendid Loosers? The Case of Count Friedrich Casimir von Hanau-Münzenberg, the Colonial Project of “Hanauisch-Indien” in 1669, and its Contexts
31 October: Lledó Ruiz Domingo (Valencia): The Treasury of the Queen: The Queen Consorts’ Management of Resources in the Crown of Aragón (14th-15th Century)
May/June 2022 – Trinity Term
Early Modern Britain
15 May: Dustin M. Neighbors (Aalto & Helsinki): Patronage or Kinship Networks? The Personnel, Financial Accounts and Logistics of Hunting for Elizabeth I of England
5 June: Amanda Westcott (Oxford): The Dignity of the Crown and Public Oeconomy: the Royal Household under George III and Burke’s Economical Reform of 1782
October/November 2023 – Michaelmas Term
16 October: Marc Jaffré (Durham): Court Business: Finance and Financiers at Louis XIII’s Court
30 October: Elizabeth Hines (Chicago): Dutch Gold and Charles I’s Turn from Spain, 1634-1637
13 November: Priya Atwal (Oxford): The Maharajah’s Money: Duleep Singh and the Royal Finances of the Sikh Empire, 1843-1893
27 November: Luisa Brunori (Paris): Louis XIV, Colbert and the Ordonnance du commerce of 1673
June 2024 – Hilary Term
3 June: Nina Kreibig (Berlin): Safeguarding in times of crisis. The compensation of the former Bavarian royal family after 1918
10 June: Gabriel Groz (Chicago): The Late-Ming ‘Mine Tax’ Reconsidered
November/December 2024 – Michaelmas Term
4 November: Annelie Große (Berlin): Royal finance and constitutional monarchy: the introduction of the Prussian pseudo-civil list, c. 1818
18 November: Molly Taylor-Poleskey (Harvard): Kitchen Servants as Economic Actors at the court of the Great Elector of Brandenburg-Prussia
02 December: Benjamin Marschke (Humboldt): Economy at Court: The Case of King Frederick William I of Prussia (1713-1740)