Medieval Merchant Venturers

Collected Studies

E.M Carus-Wilson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9780415377065
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136582868
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

First published in 1967, this superb collection of essays on trade in the Middle Ages has been a major contribution to modern medieval studies. Professor Carus-Wilson examines:

* fifteenth-century Bristol
* trade with Iceland
* the Merchant Adventurers of London
* the thirteenth-century cloth industry (with its highly developed capitalist system)
* the export of English woollen cloth
* the wine trade.

Each paper is firmly rooted in original research and contemporary sources such as customs returns and company minutes, and, in addition, her expose of the dubious accuracy of Aulnage accounts is widely recognised as a classic.

SUBJECT INDEX

Aelfric’s Colloquy, xii, 266

alabaster, exports of, carved, 5, 52, 60, 93

alien immigrants, from Flanders and Brabant, 244 n. 1; Gascony, 45, 80, 275; Iceland, 117; Ireland, 20, 80, 244 n. 1; Italy, 80; Spain, 80; Wales, 80

— merchants in England; Flemish, xiii, xxi, xxii; French in Bristol, 48, 80; Gascon, xxi–xxii, 45, 80, 275; German see “Easterlings”, Hanse; Irish, 19 et seq” 80; Italian, xi, xxi, xxii, xxv, 55, 80, 258; Genoese arrested in London, 71; Picard, xiii, xxii, 217; Portuguese, 59; Spanish, 55, 80; Welsh, 80

almonds, 27, 37, 50, 65

alum, 8, 27, 37, 51, 221–2

anchors, 51

anise, 27

‘‘ appointers ’’ (of ships), 161, 165, 171

apprenticeship, to Bristol merchants, 81–2; to Bristol weavers, 20; to merchant adventurers, 179

archil, 220

argol, 222

arms and armour, 8, 26, 47, 51, 60, 62, 64, 113, 126, 131, 132, 138, 141, 164, 166

assize of cloth, xviii, 184 n. 1, 214, 228, 244 n. 4

attorneys, 83

auditors, 161

aulnage and aulnagers, 84 n. 1, 85, 240–1, 279–91

backhandle, 231, 232

bacon, 24, 126

balls, 170; for tennis, 10

barrel staves, 60

bastard (sweet Spanish wine), 52

beadles, xxviii

beans, 52

beaver, 37, 51

beef, 126

beer, 21, 27, 121, 122, 126, 131, 132

bells, 1, 9, 99

“Berkeley wood”, 5

Black Death, 241, 244–7, 254, 260; in Iceland, 104

boards, 25, 51

books, owned by merchants, 95; stolen, 54

bowstaves, 25, 37, 51

brasil, 218–9

bream, 23

Brétigny, peace of, 249

bridges, 5, 11, 19

brokers, xxviii; of woad, 36

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Maps and Charts
• Preface
• Introduction
• I. The Overseas Trade of Bristol in the Fifteenth Century
• II. The Iceland Venture
• III. The Origins and Early Development of the Merchant Adventurers’ Organization in London
• IV. An Industrial Revolution of the Thirteenth Century
• V. The English Cloth Industry in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
• VI. Trends in the Export of English Woollens in the Fourteenth Century
• VII. The Effects of the Acquisition and of the Loss of Gascony on the English Wine Trade
• VIII. The Aulnage Accounts: a Criticism
• Index