Medieval Merchant Venturers

Author : E.M Carus-Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136582790

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Medieval Merchant Venturers by E.M Carus-Wilson Pdf

First published in 1967, this superb collection of essays on trade in the Middle Ages has been a major contribution to modern medieval studies. Professor Carus-Wilson examines: * fifteenth-century Bristol * trade with Iceland * the Merchant Adventurers of London * the thirteenth-century cloth industry (with its highly developed capitalist system) * the export of English woollen cloth * the wine trade. Each paper is firmly rooted in original research and contemporary sources such as customs returns and company minutes, and, in addition, her expose of the dubious accuracy of Aulnage accounts is widely recognised as a classic.

Author : Eleanora Mary Carus-Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Bristol (England)
ISBN : UCAL:B3116629

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Medieval Merchant Venturers by Eleanora Mary Carus-Wilson Pdf

Author : Eleanora Mary Carus-Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:613726621

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Medieval merchant venturers by Eleanora Mary Carus-Wilson Pdf

Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0415376904

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Medieval Merchant Venturers by Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

Author : David Abulafia
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1115 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Navigation
ISBN : 9780199934980

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The Boundless Sea by David Abulafia Pdf

"David Abulafia's new book guides readers along the world's greatest bodies of water to reveal their primary role in human history. The main protagonists are the three major oceans-the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Indian-which together comprise the majority of the earth's water and cover over half of its surface. Over time, as passage through them gradually extended and expanded, linking first islands and then continents, maritime networks developed, evolving from local exploration to lines of regional communication and commerce and eventually to major arteries. These waterways carried goods, plants, livestock, and of course people-free and enslaved-across vast expanses, transforming and ultimately linking irrevocably the economies and cultures of Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Americas"--

Author : John S. Lee
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781783273171

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The Medieval Clothier by John S. Lee Pdf

A clear and accessibly written guide to the medieval cloth-making trade in England.

Author : David Harris Sacks
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520914520

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The Widening Gate by David Harris Sacks Pdf

The history of capitalism is not to be explained in mere economic terms. David Harris Sacks here demonstrates that the modern Western economy was ushered in by broad processes of social, political, and cultural change. His study of Bristol as it opened it gate to national politics and the Atlantic economy reveals capitalism to be not just a species of economic order but a distinct form of life, governed by its own ethical norms and cultural practices. Availing himself of the methods of "thick description," socio-economic analysis, and political theory, Sacks examines the dynamics by which early modern Bristol moved from a medieval commercial economy to an early capitalist one. Throughout the period, the life of the city depended heavily on the successes of its great overseas merchants. But their quest for a monopoly of trade with the outside world, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Levant, came into conflict with the concerns of Bristol's artisans and retail shopkeepers. The battles of the two factions conditioned social and cultural developments in Bristol for two centuries. Locally, the conflict set the terms for developing conceptions of justice and authority. On a larger scale, it drew the community firmly into the great affairs of the realm and the wider world of expanding markets beyond.

Author : Robert Blackmore
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030345365

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Government and Merchant Finance in Anglo-Gascon Trade, 1300–1500 by Robert Blackmore Pdf

The Late Middle Ages (c.1300–c.1500) saw the development of many of the key economic institutions of the modern unitary nation-state in Europe. After the ‘commercial revolution’ of the thirteenth century, taxes on trade became increasingly significant contributors to government finances, and as such there were ever greater efforts to control the flow of goods and money. This book presents a case study of the commercial and financial links between the kingdom of England and the duchy of Aquitaine across the late-medieval period, with a special emphasis on the role of the English Plantagenet government that had ruled both in a political union since 1154. It establishes a strong connection between fluctuations in commodity markets, large monetary flows and unstable financial markets, most notably in trade credit and equity partnerships. It shows how the economic relationship deteriorated under the many exogenous shocks of the period, the wars, plagues and famines, as well as politically motivated regulatory intervention. Despite frequent efforts to innovate in response, both merchants and governments experienced a series of protracted financial crises that presaged the break-up of the union of kingdom and duchy in 1453, with the latter’s conquest by the French crown. Of particular interest to scholars of the late-medieval European economy, this book will also appeal to those researching wider economic or financial history.

Author : Jennifer Kermode,Jenny Kermode
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521522749

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Medieval Merchants by Jennifer Kermode,Jenny Kermode Pdf

An analysis of merchant lives in three northern British cities in the later middle ages.

Author : Christian Drummond Liddy
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Bristol (England)
ISBN : 0861932749

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War, Politics and Finance in Late Medieval English Towns by Christian Drummond Liddy Pdf

The strengthening of ties between crown and locality in the fourteenth century is epitomised by the relationships between York and Bristol (then amongst the largest and wealthiest urban communities in England) and the crown. This book combines a detailed study of the individuals who ruled Bristol and York at the time with a close analysis of the texts which illustrate the relationship between the two cities and the king, thus offering a new perspective on relations between town and crown in late medieval England.Beginning with an analysis of the various demands, financial, political and commercial, made upon the towns by the Hundred Years War, the author argues that such pressures facilitated the development of a partnership in government between the crown and the two towns, meaning that the elite inhabitants became increasingly important in national affairs. The book goes on to explore in detail the nature of urban aspirations within the kingdom, arguing that the royal charters granting the towns their coveted county status were crucial in binding their ruling elites into the apparatus of royal government, and giving them a powerful voice in national politics.

Author : George Chandler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036459449

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The Merchant Venturers by George Chandler Pdf

Author : Anne F. Sutton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351885706

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The Mercery of London by Anne F. Sutton Pdf

Although mercers have long been recognised as one of the most influential trades in medieval London, this is the first book to offer a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the trade from the twelfth to the sixteenth century. The variety of mercery goods (linen, silk, worsted and small manufactured items including what is now called haberdashery) gave the mercers of London an edge over all competitors. The sources and production of all these commodities is traced throughout the period covered. It was as the major importers and distributors of linen in England that London mercers were able to take control of the Merchant Adventurers and the export of English cloth to the Low Countries. The development of the Adventurers' Company and its domination by London mercers is described from its first privileges of 1296 to after the fall of Antwerp. This book investigates the earliest itinerant mercers and the artisans who made and sold mercery goods (such as the silkwomen of London, so often mercers' wives), and their origins in counties like Norfolk, the source of linen and worsted. These diverse traders were united by the neighbourhood of the London Mercery on Cheapside and by their need for the privileges of the freedom of London. Extensive use of Netherlandish and French sources puts the London Mercery into the context of European Trade, and literary texts add a more personal image of the merchant and his preoccupation with his social status which rose from that of the despised pedlar to the advisor of princes. After a slow start, the Mercers' Company came to include some of the wealthiest and most powerful men of London and administer a wide range of charitable estates such as that of Richard Whittington. The story of how they survived the vicissitudes inflicted by the wars and religious changes of the sixteenth century concludes this fascinating and wide-ranging study.

Author : Nick Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000613483

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The Settlement Patterns of Britain by Nick Green Pdf

In writing The Settlement Patterns of Britain Nick Green was inspired by the short story genre. His book is a collection of eight non-fiction short stories or essays, where the characters are the places, some of which appear more than once, usually as bit-part players, occasionally as the main protagonist. Preceded by a prologue describing Britain’s prehistory as a European peninsula, each essay covers a fixed period in the history of the development of Britain’s settlement patterns, sometimes long, more often quite short, beginning around 2,500 BC and ending about one hundred years in the future. Nick Green chose those periods that are particularly instructive in revealing how settlement patterns come to exist in the form they do and how they might develop in the future. Settlement patterns are not just about where a place is, but about how that place relates to others. They wax and wane with circumstance, and around each settlement’s fixed core, the patterns of living and working shift constantly, driven by forces beyond the control of any individual town or city or village. From Bronze Age communities to computer simulations, from the mediaeval wool trade to the hyper-networked society, from Viking invasions to the post-industrial era, the essays cover a broad sweep of history. They appear in chronological order, but are not intended to provide a continuous, linear historical narrative – nor do they: each essay is freestanding so they can be read in whatever order the reader prefers.

Author : Patrick McGrath
Publisher : American Society of Civil Engineers
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036208093

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The Merchant Venturers of Bristol by Patrick McGrath Pdf

Author : Heather Swanson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349275786

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Medieval British Towns by Heather Swanson Pdf

Medieval British Towns sets out to explain the reasons for the explosion of town foundation throughout the British Isles from the twelfth century onwards and charts the subsequent development of towns through to the early sixteenth century. The raison d'etre of towns throughout the British Isles was as market places and centres of trade in an increasingly commercialised society. The comparative approach adopted here illuminates the diverging experiences of towns in the four different countries of the British Isles, but sets them within the overall context of a shared value system, where social cohesion was provided by the church. It offers a guide to students and general readers first venturing into the study of medieval urban history and provides comparative material for more experienced students of both history and the related disciplines of archaeology and historical geography.