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Medieval Economic History

The Medieval Broadcloth: Changing Trends in Fashions, Manufacturing and Consumption
edited by Kathrine Vestergard Pedersen and Marie-Louise B. Nosch
The eight papers presented here provide a useful introduction to medieval broadcloth, and an up-to-date synthesis of current research. The word broadcloth is nowadays used as an overall term for the woven textiles mass-produced and exported all over Europe. It was first produced in Flanders as a luxurious cloth from the 11th century and through out the medieval period. Broadcloth is the English term, Laken in Flemish, Tuch in ...
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Credit and Debt in Medieval England c.1180-c.1350
edited by P R Schofield and N J Mayhew
The essays in this volume look at the mechanics of debt, the legal process, and its economics in early medieval England. Beneath the elevated plane of high politics, affairs of the Crown and international finance of the Middle Ages, lurked huge numbers of credit and debt transactions. The transactions and those who conducted them moved between social and economic worlds; merchants and traders, clerics and Jews, extending and receiving credit to ...
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A Prospering Society: Wiltshire in the Later Middle Ages
by John Hare
This book seeks to explore the changing nature of English society through a case study of countryside and town in southern England during the period from c.1380 to c.1520. It explores the influence of landscape and population on the agriculture of Wiltshire, the regional patterns of arable and pastoral farming, and the growing contrast between the large-scale mixed farming of the chalklands and the family farms of the claylands. It examines the ...
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Ties That Bind: Essays in Medieval British History in Honor of Barbara Hanawalt
edited by Linda E. Mitchell, Katherine L. French and Douglas L. Biggs
Prominent themes in these twelve essays include later medieval urban life, trade and governance; the experiences of later medieval women, including widowhood, religious vocations, and involvement in estate management and politcal life; and the peasantry, including experiences of the Black Death and the Peasants revolt. 225p (Ashgate 2011)
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Vernacularity in England and Wales, c. 1300-1550
edited by Elizabeth Salter and Helen Wicker
This interdisciplinary collection explores the concept of vernacularity in late medieval England and Wales using a variety of sources and approaches. Studies of the vernacular in the period 1300-1550 have tended to focus exclusively upon language, to the exception of the wider vernacular culture within which this was located. In a period when the status of English and ideas of Englishness were transforming in response to a variety of social, ...
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Commerce Before Capitalism in Europe, 1300-1600
by Martha C. Howell
Martha C. Howell challenges dominant interpretations of the relationship between the so-called commercial revolution of late medieval Europe and the capitalist age that followed. She argues that the merchants, shopkeepers, artisans, and consumers in cities and courts throughout Western Europe, even in the densely urbanized Low Countries that are the main focus of this study, were by no means proto-capitalist and did not consider their property a ...
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Land and Family: Trends and Local Variations in the Peasant Land Market on the Winchester Bishopric Estates, 1263-1415
by John Mullan and Richard Britnell
Medieval peasant families are closely identified with the land to which they had a hereditary right, especially in periods of land scarcity. By contrast, historians in recent decades have become increasingly interested in the growing facility with which even servile tenants could exchange land, especially from the thirteenth century onwards. This book concerns the tension between these contrasting trends in the study of village life, showing how ...
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Luneburger Saline: Salz in Nordeuropa und der Hanse
by Harald Witthoft
This study examines the economic and cultural history of the Luneburg saltworks, from the emergence of the industry in the twelfth century to the nineteenth. The saltworks were among the most important in Europe and brough great prosperity to the city which was an early member of the Hanseatic League. Witthoft discusses the logistics of mining and of the salt trade, in particular looking at economic change, the growth of markets, and the ...
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Manors and Markets: Economy and Society in the Low Countries, 500-1600
by Bas Van Bavel
Providing a concise overview of social and economic changes over more than a thousand years, Bas van Bavel assesses the impact of the social and institutional organization that saw the Low Countries become the most urbanized and densely populated part of Europe by the end of the Middle Ages. Exploring the Low Countries at a regional level, van Bavel highlights the importance of localized structures for determining the nature of social transitions ...
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Survival and Discord in Medieval Society: Essays in Honour of Christopher Dyer
edited by Richard Goddard, John Langdon and Miriam Muller
The varied and stimulating essays presented in this volume examine a host of critical issues dealing with diet, settlement, employment opportunities, taxation, credit and debt, and the tensions felt in town and country alike which often exploded into full-scale revolt. This new work not only looks at these issues from the standpoint of new evidence and theoretical perspectives, but also imparts a strong sense of the controversy surrounding many ...
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