Study on the European socio-economic structure from 15th to 17th century within the European Integration framework

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K03578
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Economic history
• Research Institution: Kobe University
• Principal Investigator: Okunishi Takashi 神戸大学, 経済学研究科, 教授 (20211815)
• Research Collaborator: Blockmans Wim ライデン大学, 人文学部, 名誉教授 ; Lesger Clé アムステルダム大学, 人文学部, 教授 ; Vermeylen Filip ロッテルダム大学, 人文学部, 教授 ; Pasture Patrick ルーヴェン大学, 人文学部, 教授
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 市場経済化 / 中近世ヨーロッパ / 低地地方 / 中心性

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The Purpose of this research is to put the European socio-economic structure from 15th to 17th century in the long-span European Integration framework. I focus on the change of structure and function of the low countries as the economical center in that period, where there we could observe some kind subsidiarity and co-existence of cultural - linguistic diversity and political - economical uniformity that Europe Union trees to achieve. To examine the change of structure and function of the low countries I analyzed the difference of price decision process among products; grain, tropical foods, textile and arts that had different circulation pattern. I plan to publish one book and two papers based on this research and I attached a file of abstract of these works.

Free Research Field

経済史