#  Nils Bock 

 

 



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Nils Bock is Lecturer in Medieval History at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany. He studied history and archaeology at the Universities of Trier (Germany), Bologna (Italy), and Toulouse (France). He received his doctorate in medieval history in 2012 from WWU Münster, with a dissertation on the heralds in late medieval German Empire focusing on their communicative function for the nobility (Die Herolde im römisch-deutschen Reich, 2015). His current project is a study on the integration and interaction between politics and economy in the Middle Ages. The main focus is the activities of Italian merchants and trading companies in France between 1250 and 1350. This period is characterized by an expansion of the use of money, of credit and debt on the one hand, and severe financial, economic, political, military, and social crises leading to deep societal changes, on the other. It is likely that the society had to face problems at a new level resulting from processes of wealth redistribution. This raises the question of how society responded to individual and collective indebtedness.

 

 

 





 

 

- ## Discipline
    
     [History](/disciplines/history)
- ## Fellowship
    
     [Postdoctoral](/fellowship/postdoctoral)
- ## Fellowship Year
    
     [2015 - 2016](/fellowship-year/2015-2016)
- ## Role
    
     [Fellows](/role/fellow)