Eleanor Congdon

Title

Assoc. Prof. of Medieval and Renaissance History, Dept of Humanities and Social Sciences

Institution

Youngstown State University

Website

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Current Research

1) Primary Research: Venetian merchants in the Western Mediterranean c. 1400, (based on the Datini archive in Prato Italy
2) Venetian merchants doing business in Syria in the 1480s
3) More general research about paper production and use c. 1400 by Italian merchants
4) More general work on ship development in the years around 1400.
5) More general work on agricultural products in the period around 1400, esp. cotton from northern Syria, wool from Iberia, and wood from Segna.