Medieval Bruges provides an early model of a great capitalist city. This book examines the factors which contributed to Bruges' economic success such as the shift to sea-borne commerce and the efforts of the city's population to fashion a great commercial center. With its study of diverse topics such as the city's political history, its advantageous communications position, the wool, cloth and gold trade and the role of women in the market, the volume offers a case-study in medieval economic history as well as a social and cultural history of medieval Bruges.
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Medieval Bruges provides an early model of a great capitalist city. The book examines the factors which contributed to Bruges' economic success such as the shift to sea-borne commerce and the efforts of the city's population to fashion a great commercial centre. With its study of diverse topics such as the city's political history, its advantageous communications position, the wool, cloth and gold trade and the role of women in the market, it provides both a case-study in medieval economic history and a social and cultural history of medieval Bruges.
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comital mint, comital bailiff, confiscation records, sociale strukturen, other money changers, belfry fire, confiscation accounts, evil inn, des mestiers, orphan money, foreign merchant communities, comital house, foreign merchant community, cloth sorts, late middeleeuwen, book transfers, mendicant houses, cloth towns, wool staple, ready coin, cloth hall, cloth producers, city accounts, luxury cloth, clearing accounts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Low Countries, Middle Ages, Collard de Marke, David Nicholas, Grote Markt, Louis of Male, German Hanse, Gilliodts-van Severen, New York, Philip the Bold, Great Cahorsin, Willem Ruweel, John Goldbeter, Raymond de Roover, Charles the Good, Walter Prevenier, Jacob Sconebergh, Some Business Transactions, William de la Pole, Acta Capituli, Great Famine, West Flanders, Henri Pirenne, History of Business, Holy Blood New!
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comital mint, comital bailiff, confiscation records, sociale strukturen, other money changers, belfry fire, confiscation accounts, evil inn, des mestiers, orphan money, foreign merchant communities, comital house, foreign merchant community, cloth sorts, late middeleeuwen, book transfers, mendicant houses, cloth towns, wool staple, ready coin, cloth hall, cloth producers, city accounts, luxury cloth, clearing accounts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Low Countries, Middle Ages, Collard de Marke, David Nicholas, Grote Markt, Louis of Male, German Hanse, Gilliodts-van Severen, New York, Philip the Bold, Great Cahorsin, Willem Ruweel, John Goldbeter, Raymond de Roover, Charles the Good, Walter Prevenier, Jacob Sconebergh, Some Business Transactions, William de la Pole, Acta Capituli, Great Famine, West Flanders, Henri Pirenne, History of Business, Holy Blood New!
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- Medieval Flanders (The Medieval World) by David Nicholas on 34 pages
- The Great Famine by William Chester Jordan on 7 pages
- The Murder of Charles the Good (Records of Western Civilization Series) by Galbert of Bruges on 4 pages
- Music in Late Medieval Bruges (Oxf Monographs Music Ncs) by Reinhard Strohm on page 197, page 363, and Back Matter
- Opera Muliebria: Women and Work in Medieval Europe (Heritage Series in Philosophy) by David V. Herlihy on page 309, page 310, and Back Matter
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