Studies in Medieval Trade and Finance: History Series, V. 13
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Studies in Medieval Trade and Finance: History Series (Hambledon Press), V. 13
By E. B. Fryde
* Publisher: Hambledon & London
* Number Of Pages: 430
* Publication Date: 2003-08-02
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0907628109
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780907628101
PREFACE
Seven of the sixteen articles reprinted here have appeared originally in
Belgian and Italian publications. The present volume aims at making
them more accessible to English readers. The articles have not been
arranged in the order of their original publication but mainly in the
chronological order of topics covered in them. This serves to bring out
better the presence of several common themes unifying the whole
collection.
One group of articles is concerned with the finances of the English
kings between 1272 and 1381 and especially with the royal borrowing
during that period. The growing indebtedness of the crown imposed
periodically excessive financial burdens on the country, aggravated by
inevitable administrative abuses and corruption. The English population
was driven into a state of chronic discontent against the fiscal system,
which finally erupted in the Great Revolt of 1381. Article I provides a
general introduction to these developments and, by comparing them
with financial history of France between 1270 and 1420, throws more
light on the special features of the English situation.
Several articles are devoted to English and foreign financiers who
had supplied the English crown with loans. They include detailed
studies of the earliest group of Englishmen, headed by William de la
Pole of Hull, capable of rivalling in financial resources and business
expertise the leading bankers of fourteenth century Europe. Some of
the other studies are concerned with these foreign competitors of the
English financiers, mainly Italians. The earliest of my articles included
in this volume (no. Ill) studies the private business of the Italian
bankers in this country in the early fourteenth century. Several articles
are concerned with trade between England and the Mediterranean and
with the part played in it by Italian shipping. Raw wool and woollen
cloths were successively the two main commodities of the medieval
English export trade. A number of studies deal with the costs and
profits of trade in these commodities and in the alum and dyes needed
by the English textile industry. All these articles represent attempts at
combining the evidence of English, Belgian and Italian records and
publications. The concluding article uses this combination of evidence
to reveal the marked difference between the levels of prices and costs in
England and Italy at the end of the Middle Ages, which may help to
explain the persistent success of Italian businessmen in exploiting the
less developed economies of north-western Europe.
The articles included in this volume are reprinted in their original
form, reflecting the state of knowledge at the time of their publication
and only obvious errors have been collected.
I owe thanks to Professor A. G. Dickens for making this publication
possible. Philip W. Davies and Simon Letman have given invaluable help
in preparing this volume for the press.
EDMUND FRYDE
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements vi
Preface vii
Select Bibliography ix
I The Financial Policies of the Royal Governments and
Popular Resistance to Them in France and England
c. 1270-c. 1420 824-60
II Financial Resources of Edward I in the Netherlands,
1294-98 1168-87
III The Deposits of Hugh Despenser the Younger
with Italian Bankers 344-62
IV Loans to the English Crown, 1328-31 198-211
V Parliament and the French War, 1336- 40 250-69
VI Edward Ill's Wool Monopoly: A Fourteenth-Century
Royal Trading Venture 8-24
VII Financial Resources of Edward III in the Netherlands,
1337-40 1142-1216
VIII Dismissal of Robert de Wodehouse from the Office
of Treasurer, December 1338 74-8
IX The Wool Accounts of William de la Pole 3-31
X The English Farmers of the Customs, 1343-51 1-17
XI Some Business Transactions of York Merchants:
John Goldbeter, William Acastre and Partners,
1336-1349 3-27
XII The Last Trials of Sir William de la Pole 17-30
XIII Parliament and the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 75-88
XIV Italian Maritime Trade with Medieval England
(c. 1270-c. 1530) 291-337
XV The English Cloth Industry and the Trade with
the Mediterranean c. 1370-c. 1530 343-63
XVI Anglo-Italian Commerce in the Fifteenth Century:
Some Evidence about Profits and the Balance of Trade 345-55
Index 1-16
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