ECOMED

Mediterranean economies in the late Middle Ages (1300-1500):
Crises, reconstruction and restructuring

The Ecomed programme is funded by the ANR for five years (2024-2028) and is supported by the Casa de Velázquez and the École française de Rome. It aims to study the structures of the economy in the Mediterranean basin (Latin West, Muslim world, Byzantine world) during the second half of the 14th century and the 15th century, i.e. from the first Black Death epidemic to the beginnings of the economic recovery. Bringing together 41 full researchers from French, Italian and Spanish teams, it aims to address an issue that has received little coverage in recent historiography, which has been dominated by historiographies centred on Northern Europe. However, the tools developed for this area are proving inadequate in part for understanding the countries of the Mediterranean basin, fragmented between Latin, Islamic and Byzantine powers. Indeed, there are specific features in all areas. They affect the climate, the environment, the role of epidemics and famines, the organisation of agricultural and craft production, the evolution of settlements, the role of war, the economic policies of states and the reactions of societies. In short, all the compartments of economic history are concerned. Ecomed plans to study them afresh, taking as its subject the Mediterranean as a whole, considered as an area evolving autonomously in relation to Northern Europe. The divergence between North and South, on the one hand, and between East and West, on the other, is a question that needs to be explored in greater depth.

Projet coordinators:

Cédric Quertier (CNRS, Lamop)
Ingrid Houssaye Michienzi (CNRS, Orient et Méditerranée)
Mohammed Ouerfelli (Aix-Marseille Université, Iremam)
Pauline Guéna (CNRS, Telemme)
Sandro Carocci (Università di Roma Tor Vergata)
Paolo Grillo (Università degli Studi di Milano Statale)
Sergio Tognetti (Università degli studi di Cagliari)
Carlos Laliena Corbera (Universidad Zaragoza)
Ana Maria Rodríguez López (CSIC)
Pere Benito i Monclús (Universitat de Lleida)
María Dolores López Pérez (Universitat de Barcelona)

Postdocs funded by the programme:

Simon Dorso (ANR ECOMED, Orient et Méditerranée)
Lionel Germain (ANR ECOMED, Laboratoire de Médiévistique occidentale de Paris)

Team members:

Philippe Bernardi (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Lamop)
Marc Bompaire (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Saprat)
Didier Boisseuil (Université de Tours, CETHIS)
Sylvain Burri (CNRS, Traces)
Jérôme Hayez (CNRS, Lamop)
Mathieu Scherman (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée Gustave Eiffel)
Judicaël Petrowiste (Université Paris-Cité, Framespa)
Philippe Lefeuvre (Université de Tours, CETHIS)

Skarbimir Prokopek (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Lamop)
Lucas Fassio (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Lamop)
Louise Gentil (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Lamop)

Pierre Brochard (CNRS, Lamop)
Nicolas Perreaux (CNRS, Lamop)

Dominique Valérian (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Orient et Méditerranée)

Raul Estangui-Gomez (CSIC)

Jennifer Vanz (Université Paris-Est Créteil, CRHEC)

Ahmed El-Fassi (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Orient et Méditerranée)
Christophe Teixeira (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Orient et Méditerranée)
Wahid Aloui (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Orient et Méditerranée)

Laure-Hélène Gouffran (CNRS, Telemme)

Federico Del Tredici (Università di Roma Tor Vergata)
Andrea Pesare (Università di Roma Tor Vergata)

Maddalena Moglia (Università degli Studi di Milano Statale)
Irina Mattioli (Università degli Studi di Milano Statale)
Giovanni Ziggiotto (Università degli Studi di Milano Statale)

Lorenzo Tanzini (Università degli studi di Cagliari)
Giuseppe Seche (Università degli studi di Cagliari)
Elena Maccioni (Università degli studi di Cagliari)

Sandra De La Torre (Universidad Zaragoza)
María Viu Fandos (Universidad Zaragoza)
Guillermo Vijil Picot (Universidad Zaragoza)

Pere Verdés Pijuan (CSIC)

Joan Maltas i Montoro (Universitat de Lleida)
Albert Reixach Sala (Universitat de Lleida)
Alberto Barber-Blasco (Universitat de Lleida)
Adrià Mas Craviotto (Universitat de Lleida)

Coral Cuadrad Majó (Universitat de Barcelona)
Karen Álvaro-Rueda (Universitat de Barcelona)
Gerard Marí Brull (Universitat de Barcelona)
Antonio Ortega-Villoslada (Universitat de Barcelona)
Maria Clua i Mercadal (Universitat de Barcelona)
Martina Del Popolo (Universitat de Barcelona)
Elisenda Cristià-Balcells (Universitat de Barcelona)
Sari Nassar (Universitat de Barcelona)

Vittoria Bufanio (Università degli studi di Padova, Lamop)
Dario Canzian (Università degli studi di Padova)

John Drendel (Univérsité du Québec à Montréal)

Camille Fabre (Université Paris-Sorbonne)

Thomas Labbé (Université de Bourgogne – Dijon)

Nicolas Minvielle-Larousse (INRAP, LA3M)

David Sassu-Normand (Université Lumière Lyon 2)

Georg Christ (University of Manchester)