The English Wool Trade in the Middle AgesThis book is the first comprehensive account of the wool trade through the whole of the medieval period. Within England it is concerned with the production and marketing of wool and with the ways in which the wool trade influenced the economic and political fortunes of different sectors of society. It describes and analyses in detail each of the periods of growth and decline in the export market. As well as explaining changes in the volume of trade it offers the first attempt to portray the distribution of the trade among individual merchants. As the scene widens Mr. Lloyd explains how England's relations with other European powers were influenced by mutual interest in the state of the wool trade. Another major theme is the influence which the export of wool exerted on England's economy as a whole. |
Contents
The end of the Flemish ascendancy | 25 |
The Italian hegemony | 60 |
The English triumphant | 99 |
Edward III woolmonger extraordinary | 155 |
Quest for a staple policy | 193 |
The evolution of the Calais staple | 225 |
The decline of the wool trade | 257 |
Marketing the wool | 301 |
Notes | 318 |
Bibliography | 338 |
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alien exports alien merchants amount of wool arrested authorised Bardi Boston Brabant Bruges bullion buy wool Cahors Calais Calais staple cash Cerchi chants claimed cloth industry collectors complaints Count of Flanders Crown customs accounts debt denizen exports Dordrecht duty Edward Edward III England English merchants English wool Englishmen Exchequer export of wool export trade export wool fact February Flanders Flemings Flemish merchants Florentine France Gascony granted H. R. Luard Henry home staples Hull issued Italian January John July June king king's later levy licences loan London Low Countries maltote marks mayor Michaelmas Middelburg monopoly Newcastle November officials ordered ordinance paid Parl Parliament payment period pipe roll ports prise probably received Riccardi royal sacks of wool safe conduct sent ships Southampton St Omer staplers statute subsidy thirteenth century towns William wool exported wool merchants wool trade writs Ypres Zeeland