The twelve essays in Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe re-examine the vexing issue of women, money, wealth, and power from distinctive perspectives - lit

London became an international center for import and export trade in the late Middle Ages. The export of wool, the development of luxury crafts and the redistri

The essays in this collection use new research and archival sources to expand on the classic work of economic historians in dissecting the relationship between

Praise for the first edition: 'It is difficult to imagine another book in which one could find all this diverse material, and no doubt Amt's collection, in its

What have a deaf nun, the mother of the first baby born to Europeans in North America, and a condemned heretic to do with one another? They are among the virtuo