Medieval merchants and money : : essays in honour of James L. Bolton / / edited by Martin Allen and Matthew Davies.

"This volume contains selected essays from a conference held in November 2013 to celebrate the contribution to scholarship of the medieval historian Professor James L. Bolton. Within the overall theme, the essays address a number of different questions in medieval economic and social history, f...

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Place / Publishing House:London : : Institute of Historical Research,, [2016]
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xix, 363 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Martin Allen and Matthew Davies - I. London merchants: companies, identities and culture - Negotiating merchant identities: the Stockfishmongers and London's companies merging and dividing, c. 1450-1550 / Justin Colson - "Writying, making and engrocyng': clerks, guilds and identity in late medieval London / Matthew Davies - What did medieval London merchants read? / Caroline M. Barron - 'For quicke and deade memorie masses': merchant piety in late medieval London / Christian Steer - II. Warfare, trade and mobility - Fighting merchants / Sam Gibbs and Adrian R. Bell - London and its merchants in the Italian archives, 1380-1530 / F. Guidi-Bruscoli - Settled or fleeting? London's medieval immigrant community revisited / Jessica Lutkin - III. Merchants and the English crown - East coast ports and the Iceland trade, 1483-5 (1489): protection and compensation / Anne F. Sutton - Royal servants and city fathers: the double lives of London goldsmiths at the court of Henry VII / S.P. Harper - IV. Money and mints - Medieval merchants and the English mints and exchanges, 973-1489 / Martin Allen - The prosecution of counterfeiting in Lancastrian England / Hannes Kleineke - V. Markets, credits and the rural economy - The economic impact of clothmaking on rural society, 1300-1550 / John Oldland - Dealing in crisis: external credit and the early fourteenth-century English village / Phillipp R. Schofield - Market courts and lex mercatoria in late medieval England / James Davis - Merchants and the law - Merchants and their use of action of account in thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century England / Paul Brand - 'According to the law of merchants and the custom of the city of London': Burton v. Davy (1436) and the negotiability of credit instruments in medieval England / Tony Moore - Bibliography of the published writings of James L. Bolton.