Table of Contents

Edward Miller: an appreciation George Holmes; 1. Economic development in the early twelfth century Edmund King; 2. Lothian and beyond: the economy of the 'English empire' of David I Ian Blanchard; 3. Boroughs, markets and trade in northern England, 1000–1216 Richard Britnell; 4. Peasant deer poachers in the medieval forest Jean Birrell; 5. The growth of London in the medieval economy Pamela Nightingale; 6. The bankruptcy of the Scali of Florence in England, 1326–8 Edmund Fryde; 7. The English export trade in cloth in the early fourteenth century Wendy R. Childs; 8. A medieval tax haven: Berwick upon Tweed and the English crown, 1333–1461 Anthony Tuck; 9. Taxation and communities in late medieval England Christopher Dyer; 10. Peasants and the collapse of the manorial economy on some Ramsey Abbey estates J. A. Raftis; 11. The famuli in the later middle ages David Farmer; 12. The great slump of the mid fifteenth century John Hatcher; 13. Lorenzo de' Medici's London branch George Holmes; 14. The trade of late medieval Chester Jenny Kermode.

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A series of essays on the society and economy of England between the eleventh and the sixteenth centuries.

Reviews

'These fourteen essays all repay close reading. The book is a magnificent tribute to a great scholar.' Trevor John, University of Warwick '... stimulating, challenging, argumentative and altogether a fitting tribute to one of our most distinguished medieval historians'. English Historical Review