Mortality, Trade, Money and Credit in Late Medieval England (1285-1531)

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Mortality, Trade, Money and Credit in Late Medieval England (1285-1531) is written by Pamela Nightingale and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1000092135 (ISBN 10) and 9781000092134 (ISBN 13).

The eleven articles in this volume examine controversial subjects of central importance to medieval economic historians. Topics include the relative roles played by money and credit in financing the economy, whether credit could compensate for shortages of coin, and whether it could counteract the devastating mortality of the Black Death. Drawing on a detailed analysis of the Statute Merchant and Staple records, the articles chart the chronological and geographical changes in the economy from the late-thirteenth to the early-sixteenth centuries. This period started with the triumph of English merchants over alien exporters in the early 1300s, and concluded in the early 1500s with cloth exports overtaking wool in value. The articles assess how these changes came about, as well as the degree to which both political and economic forces altered the pattern of regional wealth and enterprise in ways which saw the northern towns decline, and London rise to be the undisputed financial as well as the political capital of England.