Table of Contents

List of Tables
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Preface

1. Introduction

PART I: THE INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK: TRADE VENUES
2. Fairs
3. Rural markets c. 1200 – c. 1350: a late start?
4. New institutions for rural trade (c. 1350 – c. 1450)
5. The Dordrecht staple

PART II: THE INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK: RULES AND PRACTICES
6. Weighing and measuring
7. Contract enforcement

PART III: MARKET PERFORMANCE: QUANTITATIVE TESTS
8. Market integration
9. Market orientation
10. Conclusions

APPENDICES
Appendix A. Survey of fairs
Appendix B. Rural weigh houses in the north of Holland around 1400
Appendix C. Charters of urban liberties
Appendix D. Wheat prices

References
Index

About the Author

Jessica Dijkman, Ph.D. (2010) in History, Utrecht University, is a postdoc researcher at the department of Economic and Social History in Utrecht. She publishes on institutions regulating trade and production in the Middle Ages.

Reviews

"[Shaping medieval markets] deepens our understanding of the economy of Holland. But more than that, Dijkman has succeeded in presenting an original and valuable contribution to the ongoing debates on the institutional preconditions for economic growth in the late middle ages and early modern era." - Job Weststrate, in: Economic History Society, Vol. 66, No. 2 (2013), pp. 664-665

"[…] Shaping medieval markets [is] een meer dan voorbeeldige studie […], perfect op het kruispunt van theorie en bron, en een bijzonder inspirerende leidraad voor verder onderzoek naar de oorzaken van economische groei én stagnatie binnen en buiten de Nederlanden." - Jord Hanus, in: Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis / The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History (t-seg), Vol. 9, No. 4 (2012), pp. 83-85