This volume contains selected essays from a conference held in November 2013 to celebrate the contribution to scholarship of the medieval historian Professor James L. Bolton. Within the overall theme, the essays address a number of different questions in medieval economic and social history, focussing in particular on the activities of merchants, their trade, legal interactions and identities, and on the importance of money and credit in the rural and urban economies. Other essays look more widely at patterns of immigration to London, trade and royal policy, and the role that merchants played in the Hundred Years War.
Author(s): Martin Allen, Matthew Davies (eds.)
Publisher: Institute of Historical Research
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: XX+364
City: London
Preface ix
List of contributors xiii
List of figures and tables xvii
List of abbreviations xix
I. London merchants: companies, identities and culture
1. Negotiating merchant identities: the Stockfishmongers and London’s companies merging and dividing, c.1450–1550 / Justin Colson 3
2. 'Writying, making and engrocyng': clerks, guilds and identity in late medieval London / Matthew Davies 21
3. What did medieval London merchants read? / Caroline M. Barron 43
4. 'For quicke and deade memorie masses': merchant piety in late medieval London / Christian Steer 71
II. Warfare, trade and mobility
5. Fighting merchants / Sam Gibbs and Adrian R. Bell 93
6. London and its merchants in the Italian archives, 1380–1530 / F. Guidi-Bruscoli 113
7. Settled or fleeting? London’s medieval immigrant community revisited / Jessica Lutkin 137
III. Merchants and the English crown
8. East coast ports and the Iceland trade, 1483–5 (1489): protection and compensation / Anne F. Sutton 159
9. Royal servants and city fathers: the double lives of London goldsmiths at the court of Henry VII / S. P. Harper 177
IV. Money and mints
10. Medieval merchants and the English mints and exchanges, 973–1489 / Martin Allen 197
11. The prosecution of counterfeiting in Lancastrian England / Hannes Kleineke 213
V. Markets, credit and the rural economy
12. The economic impact of clothmaking on rural society, 1300–1550 / John Oldland 229
13. Dealing in crisis: external credit and the early fourteenth-century English village / Phillipp R. Schofield 253
14. Market courts and lex mercatoria in late medieval England / James Davis 271
VI. Merchants and the law
15. Merchants and their use of the action of account in thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century England / Paul Brand 293
16. '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 305
Bibliography of the published works of James L. Bolton 323
Index 327
