English Wool Market, c1230-1327
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- Author(s) Bell, Adrian R, Chris Brooks & Paul R Dryburgh
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2007
- Pages 205pp
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Place Published Cambridge
Topics:
- Name Finance of production & trade
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
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