This book is based on the biographies of some 1400 individuals who lived in three northern English towns during the later Middle Ages. It analyzes the many aspects of merchant society: achievements in politics, attitudes toward religion, the family, wider circles of friends and business acquaintances, and the nature and conduct of trade. Merchants were at the core of urban society and played a central role in the development of urban mentalité. This is one of the broadest studies of them yet published, integrating a very wide range of original sources.
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"[Kermode] offers splendid insights into many aspects of medievqal mercantile ilfe and the fortunes of the late medieval economy." Journal of Economics
"This is an important book, based on meticulous scholarship, enriching our understanding both of trading practices and urban history." Albion
"[Kermode's] book is the end result of weaving the most relevant, or the most representative, or the most idiosyncratic threads from 1,400 merchants' lives i nteh fourteenth and fifteenth centuries." Medieval Prosopography
"This is an important book, based on meticulous scholarship, enriching our understanding both of trading practices and urban history." Albion
"[Kermode's] book is the end result of weaving the most relevant, or the most representative, or the most idiosyncratic threads from 1,400 merchants' lives i nteh fourteenth and fifteenth centuries." Medieval Prosopography
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This book is based on some 1400 persons who lived in three northern English towns during the later middle ages. It analyses the many aspects of merchant society: achievements in politics, attitudes towards religion, the family, wider circles of friends and business acquaintances, and the nature and conduct of trade. Merchants were at the core of urban society and played a central role in the development of urban mentalité. This is one of the broadest studies of them yet published, integrating a very wide range of original sources.
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The history of English medieval local government is of a process in flux. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
annual turnover worth, paid aulnage, twelve keepers, elected chamberlain, miscellaneous imports, wool monopoly, account aforesaid, cash bequests, probate registers, probi homines, cash estates, common clerk, statutory bonds, testamentary evidence, customs rolls, merchant mayor, buying wool, active merchants, undyed cloths, account rolls, lead worth, merchant rulers, miscellaneous goods, urban rents, cloth exports Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
London Merchant Class, Low Countries, Robert Holme, Corpus Christi Guild, Yorks Deeds, Bury St Edmunds, English Wool Trade, English Trade, Nicholas Blackburn, Rolls City of London, Black Death, Medieval English Economy, House Book, Richard York, Select Cases, Holy Trinity, William de la Pole, John Gilyot, Medieval Artisans, Prob Reg, Thomas Holme, John Bolton, John Tutbury, Richard Russell of York, West Riding New!
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annual turnover worth, paid aulnage, twelve keepers, elected chamberlain, miscellaneous imports, wool monopoly, account aforesaid, cash bequests, probate registers, probi homines, cash estates, common clerk, statutory bonds, testamentary evidence, customs rolls, merchant mayor, buying wool, active merchants, undyed cloths, account rolls, lead worth, merchant rulers, miscellaneous goods, urban rents, cloth exports Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
London Merchant Class, Low Countries, Robert Holme, Corpus Christi Guild, Yorks Deeds, Bury St Edmunds, English Wool Trade, English Trade, Nicholas Blackburn, Rolls City of London, Black Death, Medieval English Economy, House Book, Richard York, Select Cases, Holy Trinity, William de la Pole, John Gilyot, Medieval Artisans, Prob Reg, Thomas Holme, John Bolton, John Tutbury, Richard Russell of York, West Riding New!
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- Medieval English Clothmaking: An Economic Survey by A. R. Bridbury on 9 pages
- Vol 2: The Atlas of Historic Towns: Maps and Plans of Towns and Cities in British Isles, with Historical Commentaries, from Earliest Times to 1800. Towns: Bristol, Cambridge, Coventry, Norwich by Professor Mary Doreen Lobel on 5 pages
- Studies in London History by A.E.J. Hollaender on 4 pages
- Historical Foundations of the Common Law by S. F. Milsom on page 211, page 228, and Back Matter
- The Cambridge Urban History of Britain (Volume 1) by D. M. Palliser on page 25, page 53, and Back Matter
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- Medieval England: A Social History 1250-1550 by P.J.P. Goldberg in Back Matter
- Politics and Power in Early Medieval Europe: Alsace and the Frankish Realm, 600-1000 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series) by Hans J. Hummer in Back Matter
- Restoration and Reform, 1153-1165: Recovery from Civil War in England (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series) by Graeme J. White in Back Matter
- Literacy in Lombard Italy, c.568-774 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series) by Nicholas Everett in Back Matter
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