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Enterprise, Money and Credit in England before the Black Death 1285–1349

Part of the Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-90251-7

ISBN: 978-3-319-90250-0

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Jul 19, 2018

1 - 10 of 12 Chapters

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Chapter 1The Place of Credit and Coin in the Medieval English Economy

Nightingale, Pamela

Pages: 1 –26

[This chapter explains the part that money and credit played in the medieval English economy. The currency depended on a positive balance of trade, enabling merchants to bring bullion to the mints to compensate for losses of coin through trade and through payments financing warfare overseas. As...
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Chapter 2The Records of the Statutes of Acton Burnell, and Merchants, 1284–1349

Nightingale, Pamela

Pages: 27 –50

[This chapter describes the background to, and the provisions of, the Statutes of Acton Burnell (1283) and Merchants (1285) which set up registries for recording debts in the major towns throughout the kingdom, particularly those connected with the wool trade. It discusses conflicting...
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Chapter 3The Contribution of Alien Creditors to the English Economy, 1285–1289

Nightingale, Pamela

Pages: 51 –68

[This chapter discusses the contribution made to the English economy in 1285–9 by the main groups of alien creditors who appear in the certificates. The trade with England of Italians, Cahorsins, Gascons, Germans and other smaller groups of aliens is analysed in turn and shown to be localised...
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Chapter 4English Wealth and Credit, 1285–1289

Nightingale, Pamela

Pages: 69 –97

[This chapter shows how credit, because it is an indicator of economic activity, reflects differing patterns of growth and development within the same chronological period in England. Whereas in 1285–1289 English credit recorded in the certificates showed the same concentrations as that of the...
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Chapter 5The Growth of English Credit, 1290–1294

Nightingale, Pamela

Pages: 99 –129

[This chapter relates the puzzling facts that English credit in the certificates was growing in the leading counties between 1290 and 1294 even though the amount of foreign bullion brought to the mints fell to only 8% of its total in the previous decade, and alien credit in the certificates...
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Chapter 6Warfare, Currency Confusion and Falling Credit, 1295–1299

Nightingale, Pamela

Pages: 131 –154

[This chapter shows what happened to credit in 1295–1299. These were years of severe political and monetary crises in which Edward I spent about £750,000, mostly extracted from English taxpayers, and wool exporters, to finance warfare in France, a rebellion in Wales, campaigns in Scotland, and...
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Chapter 7Recovery and New Patterns of Credit, 1300–1304

Nightingale, Pamela

Pages: 155 –183

[This chapter describes how the withdrawal and re-minting of the imitation sterlingssterlings, imitative renewed confidence in the coinage and doubled the credit in the certificates for 1300–1304. However, London and eight countiescounties, including five neighbouring the city did not share in...
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Chapter 8Monetary Expansion and Economic Growth, 1305–1309

Nightingale, Pamela

Pages: 185 –219

[This chapter describes the economic boom of 1305–1309 which was created by the expansion of wool exports and the reciprocal flood of bullion to the English mints. This expanded the currency to a new peak c. 1310 and represented monetary growth of over 25% since 1299. Although credit doubled...
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Chapter 9Crises, Conflicts and Mercantile Credit, 1311–1329

Nightingale, Pamela

Pages: 221 –253

[This chapter covers the years 1311–1322 when only merchants were allowed to use the registries. The period was dominated by the conflicts between the king and the baronial party of the OrdainersOrdainers, while Scottish forces devastated the north of England. The OrdainersOrdainers reduced the...
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Chapter 10Warfare, Gold and Regional Disparities, 1330–1339

Nightingale, Pamela

Pages: 255 –298

[This chapter covers the whole of the 1330s which included the temporary closure, for lack of bullionbullion, of both the London mintLondonmint in 1330 and the Canterbury mint from 1332. This contributed to a low output of coin for most of the decade, and falling prices in local markets. Contrary...

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