Newly available in paperback, this is a wonderfully readable account of the role of merchants and money in the medieval world. Professor Spufford, who has made

In the Middle Ages, merchants changed the face of Europe as they spent their lives buying and selling goods. Medieval Merchant explores the daily lives of the m

A social history of the merchant class of 14th- and 15th-century London

Around 1500 England's society and economy had reached a turning point. After a long period of slow change and even stagnation, an age of innovation and initiati

This volume contains selected essays in celebration of the scholarship of the medieval historian Professor James L. Bolton. The essays address a number of diffe