1st Edition
Trade, Urbanisation and the Family Studies in the History of Medieval Flanders
By David Nicholas
Copyright 1996
352 Pages
by
Routledge
352 Pages
by
Routledge
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Flanders, best known for its large cities and export-grade woollen cloth, is the setting for these articles. Professor Nicholas here emphasises the region's broader importance in the economy of medieval Europe as a focus of demand for grain and industrial raw materials. Imports to supply the bloated internal markets were more important in establishing the Flemish cities and creating the capital... Read more
Contents: Economic reorientation and social change in 14th-century Flanders; The English trade at Bruges in the last years of Edward III; The Scheldt trade and the Ghent War of 1379-1385; Settlement patterns, urban functions, and capital formation in medieval Flanders; Of poverty and primacy: demand, liquidity, and the Flemish economic miracle, 1050-1200; Crime and punishment in 14th-century Ghent; Weert: a Scheldt polder village in the 14th century; The marriage and the meat hall: Ghent/Eeklo, 1373-75; Index.
Biography
David Nicholas
'Nicholas’s collected essays present the economic...history of Flanders in a thought-provoking and innovative form.' Journal of Urban History, vol. 26 no. 3
