The wool market was extremely important to the English medieval economy and wool dominated the English export trade from the late thirteenth century to its decline in the late fifteenth century. Wool was at the forefront of the establishment of England as a European political and economic power and this 2007 volume was the first study of the medieval wool market in over 20 years. It investigates in detail the scale and scope of advance contracts for the sale of wool; the majority of these agreements were formed between English monasteries and Italian merchants, and the book focuses on the data contained within them. The pricing structures and market efficiency of the agreements are examined, employing practices from modern finance. A detailed case study of the impact of entering into such agreements on medieval English monasteries is also presented, using the example of Pipewell Abbey in Northamptonshire.
The English Wool Market, c.1230-1327
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"Future historians will...be in the author's debt for the richly nuanced picture of a market under stress"
James M. Murray, Western Michigan University, EH.NET
"This is a spectacularly successful investigation. The analysis is methodically unassailable, and its conclusions are sound. Moreover, the book is superbly written and supremely well organized." -Stuart Jenks, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"This is an important contribution to the scholarship of economic history of late Middle Ages in general and England in particular."
Sixteenth Century Journal, Philip Slavin, Yale University
James M. Murray, Western Michigan University, EH.NET
"This is a spectacularly successful investigation. The analysis is methodically unassailable, and its conclusions are sound. Moreover, the book is superbly written and supremely well organized." -Stuart Jenks, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"This is an important contribution to the scholarship of economic history of late Middle Ages in general and England in particular."
Sixteenth Century Journal, Philip Slavin, Yale University
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Wool was at the forefront of the establishment of England as a European political and economic power. This 2007 volume was the first study of the medieval wool market in over twenty years. It investigates the role of advance contracts for the sale of wool and their impact on medieval monasteries.
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The English Wool Market, English Wool Trade, Middle Ages, Pipewell Abbey, Giles de Ayre, Seigneurial Administration, Della Decima, English Medieval History, Cold Ashby, Abbot William, William of Lawford, Riccardi of Lucca, The Cistercians, Nativity of St John the Baptist, Louth Park, Baroncino Gualteri, East Riding, John Wermond of Cambrai, Great European Famine, Abbot Nicholas, Francesco Balducci Pegolotti, Thomas de Thockrington, New Look, Reginald Maniward, John de Hillun Browse Sample Pages:
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memoranda rolls, collecta wool, monastic producers, advance contracts, wool contracts, lay producers, della mercatura, monastic grange, surviving contracts, successive abbots, wool prices, good wool, wool crop, wool stocks, monastic economy, merchant societies, wool trade, sheep scab, wool sales Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The English Wool Market, English Wool Trade, Middle Ages, Pipewell Abbey, Giles de Ayre, Seigneurial Administration, Della Decima, English Medieval History, Cold Ashby, Abbot William, William of Lawford, Riccardi of Lucca, The Cistercians, Nativity of St John the Baptist, Louth Park, Baroncino Gualteri, East Riding, John Wermond of Cambrai, Great European Famine, Abbot Nicholas, Francesco Balducci Pegolotti, Thomas de Thockrington, New Look, Reginald Maniward, John de Hillun Browse Sample Pages:
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