Medieval merchants and money : : essays in honour of James L. Bolton / / edited by Martin Allen and Matthew Davies.
This volume contains selected essays in celebration of the scholarship of the medieval historian Professor James L. Bolton. The essays address a number of different questions in medieval economic and social history, as the volume looks at the activities of merchants, their trade, legal interactions...
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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, maps |
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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.