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

Pamela Nightingale read history at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she stayed to do research for a Ph.D. which she was awarded in 1963. Her first three books were on the history of British India and Chinese Central Asia from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, until she changed her field to write a book on the trade and politics of medieval London. Her research led her to investigate and then to calendar the huge collection of certificates of debt in the National Archives on which this present book is based.  Her publications, two Senior Research Fellowships held at the Ashmolean Museum, and regular participation in an Oxford research seminar on medieval economic and social history led to her election in 1999 as a member of Oxford University's Faculty of History, and in 2010 she was awarded an Oxford D.Litt. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

• Chapter 1. The Place of Credit and Coin in the Medieval English Economy.- Chapter 2. The Records of the Statutes of Acton Burnell, and Merchants, 1284–1349.- Chapter 3. The Contribution of Alien Creditors to the English Economy, 1285–1289.- Chapter 4. English Wealth and Credit, 1285–1289.- Chapter 5. The Growth of English Credit, 1290–1294.- Chapter 6. Warfare, Currency Confusion, and Falling Credit, 1295–1299.- Chapter 7. Recovery and New Patterns of Credit, 1300–1304.- Chapter 8. Monetary Expansion and Economic Growth, 1305–1309.- Chapter 9. Crises, Conflicts, and Mercantile Credit, 1311–1329.- Chapter 10. Warfare, Gold, and Regional Disparities, 1330–1339.- Chapter 11. English Financiers, a Gold Currency and Plague, 1340–1349.- Chapter 12. Conclusions.