The volume explores late medieval market mechanisms and associated institutional, fiscal and monetary, organizational, decision-making, legal and ethical issues

Reading Medieval Sources is an exciting new series which leads scholars and students into some of the most challenging and rewarding sources from the European M

The sixteen articles in this collection analyse the contribution made by overseas trade, and the wealth in coin which it created, to the development of the Engl

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

From the tenth century on, technical and technological advancements in agriculture resulted in an unprecedented growth of cultivated land in Europe, which would