Medieval Merchants. York, Beverley and Hull in the later Middle Ages

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Scholarly work drawing on the writer's doctoral thesis 'Medieval Merchants: York, Beverley and Hull in the later Middle Ages', Sheffield, 1990. Structured in two parts, the first dealing with merchants and society including local government, religion, family, networks, etc, and the second covering the nature and conduct of trade, notably international trade in commodities such as cloth, wool and wine. In this draws on the experience of 1,400 merchants located at York, Beverley and Hull. Chapters include: Part 1] 'Merchant society and politics' - 'Merchants in government' / 'Merchant society - families, dependants and friends, the evidence of wills' / 'Merchants and religion, the evidence of wills'; Part 2] 'Entrepreneurship and capital accumulation' - 'The geography and composition of trade' / 'The practice of trade' / 'Business and finance' / 'Trade and competition' / 'Mercantile estates' / 'Profits and losses'. Appendices [pp323-53] include 'Some [c75] merchant biographies' [pp332-47] / Listing of Yorkshire merchants in the 1337 wool monopoly / 'Offices and election procedures' at York and Hull / Transcription of 'The case of John Bolton against John Brandesby and Simon Swan of York, 1445'