"A wealth of important new information, which collectively provides a new vision of the fifteenth-century English economy."
-Economic History Review

Contents

Preface

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

2 ‘Writying, making and engrocyng’: clerks, guilds and identity in late medieval London

Matthew Davies

3 What did medieval London merchants read?

Caroline M. Barron

4 ‘For quicke and deade memorie masses’: merchant piety in late medieval London

Christian Steer

II. Warfare, trade and mobility

5 Fighting merchants

Sam Gibbs and Adrian R. Bell

1. London and its merchants in the Italian archives, 1380–1530

F. Guidi-Bruscoli

7 Settled or fleeting? London’s medieval immigrant community revisited

Jessica Lutkin

III. Merchants and the English crown

8 East coast ports and the Iceland trade, 1483–5 (1489): protection and compensation

Anne F. Sutton

9 Royal servants and city fathers: the double lives of London goldsmiths at the court of Henry VII

S. P. Harper

IV. Money and mints

10 Medieval merchants and the English mints and exchanges, 973–1489

Martin Allen

11 The prosecution of counterfeiting in Lancastrian England

Hannes Kleineke

V. Markets, credit and the rural economy

1. The economic impact of clothmaking on rural society, 1300–1550

John Oldland

13 Dealing in crisis: external credit and the early fourteenth-century English village

Phillipp R. Schofield

14 Market courts and lex mercatoria in late medieval England

James Davis

VI. Merchants and the law

15 Merchants and their use of the action of account in thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century England

Paul Brand

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

Bibliography of the published works of James L. Bolton