The Medieval Clothier
Details:
- Author(s) Lee, John S
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2018
- Pages 393pp; illus
- Publisher Boydell Press
- Place Published Woodbridge
Topics:
- Name Entrepreneurs & business elites
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Scholarly work dealing with clothiers and their production and distribution of woollen cloth, focusing on the leaders as well as typical clothiers, their entrepreneurship, impact within their communities, etc. Chapters include: 'Making cloth'; 'Marketing cloth'; 'Identifying clothiers'; 'Clothiers and government'; 'Clothiers in society'; 'Famous clothiers'. Appendices: 'Cloths taxed by county'; 'Cloths taxed by locality'; 'Cloth types, as defined by statute in 1552'; 'Will of Thomas Paycocke of Coggeshall'; 'Will of Thomas Spring III of Lavenham'; 'Will of John Smallwood the elder alias John Winchecombe I of Newbury'; 'Will of William Stumpe of Malmesbury'; 'Gazetteer of surviving buildings' [ie places to visit]; Glossary of terms