English Wool Market, c1230-1327

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  • Name Finance of production & trade

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Deals with the wool market, most notably the finance of wool sales via examination of contractual documentation for forward sales of wool by producers to Italian merchants. Chapters include: 'Advance contracts for the sale of wool'; 'Case study - Pipewell Abbey, Northamptonshire'; 'Modern finance in the Middle Ages'. Appendices provide a sample contract and a list of contracts [pp158-84] which are the subject of this publication. See also A Bell et al (eds), 'Advance Contracts for the Sale of Wool, c1200-c1327', List & Index Society, 2006