Medieval Merchant Venturers. Collected studies
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- Author(s) Carus-Wilson, E M
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1967
- Pages 2nd ed; 314pp
- Publisher Methuen
- Place Published London
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- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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First published 1954. Eight essays by the writer, published between 1929 and 1950 and covering English overseas trade, notably in woollen cloth and wine, in the medieval period. The essays are: 'Overseas trade of Bristol' [pp1-97]; 'Iceland venture' [pp98-142]; 'Origins and early development of the Merchant Adventurers Organisation in London' [pp143-82]; 'Industrial revolution of the thirteenth century' [pp183-210]; 'The English cloth industry in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries' [pp211-38]; 'Trends in the export of English woollens in the fourteenth century' [pp239-64]; 'The effects of the acquisition and of the loss of Gascony on the English wine trade' [pp265-78]; 'The Aulnage Accounts - a criticism' [pp279-91]. For relevant essays see individual BHE entries