Petr Vorel Author

Petr Vorel is a Czech historian, numismatist and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy at the University of Pardubice.A His long-term research interest is the economic and political history of Central Europe and specifically with the history of monetary circulation. He considers as his most important publications on this topic the books Monetary Circulation in Central Europe at the Beginning of the Early Modern Age - Attempts to Establish a Shared Currency as an Aspect of the Political Culture of the 16th Century (1524-1573), and Silver in the European Monetary Circulation of the 16th and 17th Centuries (1472-1717). At the most recent XXIA International Congress of Historical Sciences (Amsterdam 2010) he was the organizer of the independent session "Trade and Civilization from Ancient Times to Present."A Currently he is the Chairman of the Czech National Committee of Historians.