This book is the first comprehensive account of the wool trade through the whole of the medieval period. Within England it is concerned with the production and

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the publi

This book was first published in 1962. Until the era of the Industrial Revolution wool was, without question, the most important raw material in the English eco

The wool market was extremely important to the English medieval economy and wool dominated the English export trade from the late thirteenth century to its decl

A clear and accessibly written guide to the medieval cloth-making trade in England.