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Professor James L. Bolton (Photo: Tom Bolton, 2015) Medieval merchants and money Essays in honour of James L. Bolton Medieval merchants and money Essays in honour of James L. Bolton Edited by Martin Allen and Matthew Davies LONDON INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH Published by UNIVERSITY OF LONDON SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU First published in print in 2016. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license. More information regarding CC licenses is available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Available to download free at http://www.humanities-digital-library.org ISBN 978-1-909646-73-5 (PDF edition) ISBN 978 1 905165 16 2 (hardback edition) Contents Preface ix List of contributors xiii List of figures and tables xvii List of abbreviations xix I. London merchants: companies, identities and culture 1. Negotiating merchant identities: the Stockfishmongers and London’s companies merging and dividing, c.1450–1550 3 Justin Colson 2. ‘Writying, making and engrocyng’: clerks, guilds and identity in late medieval London 21 Matthew Davies 3. What did medieval London merchants read? 43 Caroline M. Barron 4. ‘For quicke and deade memorie masses’: merchant piety in late medieval London 71 Christian Steer II. Warfare, trade and mobility 5. Fighting merchants 93 Sam Gibbs and Adrian R. Bell 6. London and its merchants in the Italian archives, 1380–1530 113 F. Guidi-Bruscoli 7. Settled or fleeting? London’s medieval immigrant community revisited 137 Jessica Lutkin III. Merchants and the English crown 8. East coast ports and the Iceland trade, 1483–5 (1489): protection and compensation 159 Anne F. Sutton vii Medieval merchants and money 9. Royal servants and city fathers: the double lives of London goldsmiths at the court of Henry VII 177 S. P. Harper IV. Money and mints 10. Medieval merchants and the English mints and exchanges, 973–1489 197 Martin Allen 11. The prosecution of counterfeiting in Lancastrian England 213 Hannes Kleineke V. Markets, credit and the rural economy 12. The economic impact of clothmaking on rural society, 1300–1550 229 John Oldland 13. Dealing in crisis: external credit and the early fourteenth-century English village 253 Phillipp R. Schofield 14. Market courts and lex mercatoria in late medieval England 271 James Davis VI. Merchants and the law 15. Merchants and their use of the action of account in thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century England 293 Paul Brand 16. ‘According to the law of merchants and the custom of the city of London’: Burton v. Davy (1436) and the negotiability of credit instruments in medieval England 305 Tony Moore Bibliography of the published works of James L. Bolton 323 Index 327 viii
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