International Meetings of the Middle Ages in Nájera have been proposed as an international congress in the field of study and dissemination of Medieval History since 2003. The theme for this year’s meetings is Economic policies and strategies in the Medieval Atlantic City. Atlantic city, arose in the Middle Ages, was based on a series of key factors -such as the geographical features, infrastructures and very dynamic societies-, but also because urban policies adopted, in those peripheral cities due to its geographical location, some common and different characteristics from the cities of the interior of the continent, whose economic policies and strategies we are proposing to analyze in this conference.

Presentation

International Meetings of the Middle Ages in Nájera have been proposed as an international congress in the field of study and dissemination of Medieval History since 2003. This NEIM 2020 edition will take place in an offsite virtual environment, due to COVID'19.

The theme for this year’s meetings is Economic policies and strategies in the Medieval Atlantic City. Atlantic city, arose in the Middle Ages, was based on a series of key factors -such as the geographical features, infrastructures and very dynamic societies-, but also because urban policies adopted, in those peripheral cities due to its geographical location, some common and different characteristics from the cities of the interior of the continent, whose economic policies and strategies we are proposing to analyze in this conference.

The International Meetings of the Middle Ages in Nájera invite you to send proposals (oral or poster presentation) on the following topics:

• Axis 1: Intervention of the town council authorities in the port administration.
• Axis 2: Navigation, shipbuilding and empowerment of merchant and war fleets.
• Axis 3: Professional port associations.
• Axis 4: Economic diplomacy: nations and consulates.
• Axis 5: Regulation of port and maritime activity.
• Axis 6: Policies and financial strategies.
• Axis 7: Female entrepreneur.
• Axis 8: The ports in the commercial and fiscal policy of the Crown.
• Axis 9: Management of the maritime and coastal jurisdiction.
• Axis 10: Maritime transport and port infrastructure support policies.

Submission guidelines

Historians, PhD researchers and Graduate students are encouraged to submit abstracts for research presentations or posters on topics related to Economic policies and strategies in the Medieval Atlantic city

Abstracts should be no more than 500 characters and should clearly state the purpose, thesis, sources, methodology, and principal findings of the paper to be presented. Successful proposals will be published in 2021. All abstracts and a short CV (250 words) should be submitted electronically to NEIM 2020 at: neim@unican.es

The deadline for submissions will be September 30th, 2020.

The scientific languages of the meetings are Spanish, English, French, Portuguese and Italian.

All presentations will be made through a virtual platform WEBINAR.

The texts of the power points must be in English.

Each presentation may be a maximum of 20 minutes long

You will be informed on the acceptance of your presentation per mail no later than October 15^th 2020.

Registration and attendance

This year’s virtual meeting provides the utmost flexibility for members to connect in ways never before possible, explore ideas, and actively learn in a new online environment. We invite you to join us.

Participants should send:  name and surname/s, email and the bank receipt to the secretariat by email: neim@unican.es

The deadline for registration  will be on November 28th, 2020.

Registration fees

• Normal: 75 €
• Reduced: 45 €  for undergraduate, master and PhD students.
• Free: 0 €  for accepted presentations, unemployed, retired and residents in La Rioja.

 Payment by bank transfer to:

Bank Account Number:  ES93 2038 7465 05 6000012392

Description: 17^th International Meetings of the Middle Ages in Nájera 2020

Account Owner: Ayuntamiento de Nájera

International scientific advisory board

Chair

• Jesús Ángel Solórzano Telechea. Universidad de Cantabria

Organizing Committee

• María Álvarez Fernández, Universidad de Oviedo
• Iñaki Bazán Díaz, Universidad de País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
• Inazio Conde Mendoza, Universidad de Cantabria
• Gilberto Fernández Escalante, Universidad de Cantabria
• José Damián González Arce, Universidad de Murcia
• Nena Vandeweerdt. Universidad de Lovaina (KULeuven) / Universidad de Cantabria
• Mário Paulo Martins Viana. Universidade dos Açores

Members

• Amélia Aguiar Andrade. Universidade Nova de Lisboa
• María Asenjo González. Universidad Complutense de Madrid
• Raphaela Averkorn. Universität Siegen
• Iñaki Bazán Díaz. Universidad del País Vasco/ Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
• Michel Bochaca. Université de La Rochelle
• Roman Czaja. Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu / University Nicolaus Copernicus in Torun
• David Ditchburn. Trinity College Dublin
• Ariel Guiance. CONICET-Universidad de Córdoba de Argentina
• Jelle Haemers. Universiteit Leuven
• Ricardo Izquierdo Benito. Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
• Juan Francisco Jiménez Alcázar. Universidad de Murcia
• Christian Liddy. University of Durham
• Denis Menjot. Université de Lyon II
• Germán Navarro Espinach. Universidad de Zaragoza
• Giuliano Pinto. Universitá degli studi di Firenze
• Sarah Rees Jones. University of York
• Ana María Rivera Medina. Universidad Nacional a Distancia UNED
• Teófilo F. Ruiz. University of California-Los Ángeles
• Vicente Salvatierra Cuenca. Universidad de Jaén
• Louis Sicking. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam / Universiteit Leiden
• Urszula Sowina. Polska Akademia Nauk /Polish Academy of Sciences. Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology
• Mª Isabel del Val Valdivieso. Universidad de Valladolid
• Hermínia Vilar. Universidade de Evora

Honorary Committee

• Beatriz Arízaga Bolumburu (Former Chair)